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...Pebble & Cypress. In five years of trying, Jack had never won the Crosby. When he stepped up to the first tee last week, he had not swung a golf club professionally for a month. So on the first tee at Pebble Beach he belted an iron shot 220 yds. straight down the center of the fairway. He hit every green in regulation figures (one stroke for parthrees, two for par-fours, three for parfives), fired a three-under-par 69 that he called "one of the best rounds I have ever shot in this tournament...
...longest accurate hitter in golf." But like all long hitters, Jack is also a high hitter, and it is a simple law of physics that the longer a golf ball stays airborne, the more it is affected by wind. The tournament draw put him at the ocean-side Cypress Point course next day- and there the wind was howling in off the Pacific at 40 m.p.h., bending flag sticks over until the tips touched the ground. Nicklaus double-bogied three straight holes in the wind, and groaned: "I don't remember doing anything like that since...
Over the years, Eaton expanded the original Forest Lawn to 317 acres, opened new ones in Hollywood Hills, Cypress and Covina. But not without opposition. When his plans for Covina became known, outraged residents rushed out to picket, carrying signs reading "Drop Dead Elsewhere" and "Land of the Free or Home of the Grave?" Overnight, Eaton's men buried six bodies in the property-the exact number necessary, under California law, to constitute a cemetery...
...survivor of the Gangō-ji temple near Nara, once Japan's foremost city. Yet, for all the sanctity surrounding it, this Japanese statue is a bold departure from traditional Chinese elegance. In this Buddha's broad shoulders, strength replaces softness. Carved from a single block of cypress, the sculpture seems to derive its rippling drapery from the wood's grain...
...developed, was the old bugaboo of public projects-cost. Yoshimura's idea of simplicity, claimed Ryoichi Takao, head of the Palace Construction Bureau, included too many costly details. Yoshimura, for instance, wanted the expansion joints connecting the buildings covered, and planned to use 45-ft.-long, exposed cypress beams for the ceiling. Finding a loophole in the architect's contract that limited him to a supervisory capacity, Takao began instituting money-saving devices...