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...rubberneckers down. His consistent, steely-nerved game meant the difference. He took the next four holes in par, bogeyed the 18th when a putt fell 2 ft. short, came home with a 1-over-par 281. It was exactly what he needed: Bob Goalby, onetime Darien, Conn., club pro, had finished earlier with a 282. Sanders, playing behind Littler, knew he had to birdie one of the last two holes to earn a tie. But Sanders was a stroke away each time. By the thin margin of one missed putt, quiet Gene Littler was the new Open champion...
...PEAK IN DARIEN (252 pp.)-Roswell G. Ham Jr.-Putnam...
...Wink is a recent widower and an inveterate girl watcher. The girl is Virginia Jackson, a witchingly lovely item who appears on a neighboring Darien. Conn, porch each morning in a shimmering blue robe to serve breakfast to her father, a bar-car contemporary of Wink's. She is just 22. and whether the twain can mate is the fulcrum of this wry comedy of commuterland. In establishing squatter's rights on the Peter De Vries-John Cheever territory. Author Roswell G. Ham Jr. (Fish Flying Through Air) is a trifle unsure of himself, but he has some...
...love story with a carbonated commentary on suburbanitis, with its worship of errant gadgets (" 'Patent applied for' but never to be granted, I trust"), anxious affluence ("We had enough trouble living 10% over our income"), status eking ("If the price was down around $17,000-in Darien that meant one room and an outhouse on a twenty-by-twenty lot under the New Haven Railroad tracks") and nostalgic concupiscence ("There hasn't been an organized wife-swapping party in Darien or New Canaan for five years. All we do is grow gardens, take the kids sailing...
...significant trend is an effort to give youngsters an early taste of many fields so that later they can channel themselves more effectively. Most of the effort is still at the high school level. An ambitious plan to do the job even earlier is a pilot project at Darien (Conn.) High School called Sciences and Arts Camps Inc. SAAC's goal: to launch a chain of brain-stirring summer day camps for gifted fourth-to sixth-graders in suburbs across the country...