Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...southern Florida than it does to the once magical islands of Hawaii. Soft-drink and souvenir stands clutter the beach front, the famed beach itself is often so crowded that it looks like Coney Island on a Sunday, and hawkers are everywhere ($8 for a twilight cruise plus a cup of rum punch in a catamaran...
Married. Briggs Cunningham, 56, millionaire sports-car builder-driver and yachtsman who skippered Columbia to victory in the 1958 America's Cup; and Laura Maxine Elmer, 39, also a sports-car enthusiast; both for the second time; in El Paso, Texas, the day after Cunningham divorced his wife of 33 years (three children) in Juarez, Mexico...
...trial at all for well-bred Britons to keep a stiff upper lip all the way through Dunkirk, the Blitz and Suez. But through eight straight losses to the U.S. in the Walker Cup-now really, chaps, that was a bit much to ask. Englishmen take their golf seriously; after all, they practically invented the game. Actually, it was the Scots-but surely the Empire still stretches that...
This year the British decided to go after the Walker Cup in earnest. They scheduled the matches for Ailsa, a 7,025-yd. course at Turnberry, Scotland, whose massive bunkers and cement-hard greens were sure to give U.S. golfers fits. Then they picked a team of strong young amateurs who could match the long-hitting Americans drive for drive. And, finally, they prayed for rain...
...Gunnar Björnstrand) serves Communion as if he were an actor in a play near the end of a long run-withdrawn, saying the words without compassion. The contrast between this remoteness and the fervor on the faces of the communicants as they receive the Host and the Cup states Bergman's theme: a vain search for faith down ways that are closed. Besought, after the service, to counsel a fisherman (Max von Sydow) sick with world-sadness because "the Chinese now have an atom bomb," the pastor starts a confident trust-in-God homily that turns...