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...Angeles Open was 15 under par, an improvement of four strokes over 1966. In the Phoenix Open, it was twelve under, as compared with six under last year; in the Tucson Open, it was 15 under, as compared with ten. Doug Sanders needed a nine-under 275 to eke out a one-stroke victory in last month's Doral Open, and when the Greater Greensboro Open reached the halfway point last week, no less than 29 golfers had sub-par scores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: The Par Busters | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...that it reflects the College's attitude on grades. Up to now the College has said that a B--is worth as much as a B+, thus tacitly suggesting that a student can spend his time as profitably in a non-academic activity as in an effort to eke out another half point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plus-grubbers | 2/9/1967 | See Source »

...merely a stringer. Since then, though, the Union has suffered a morose procession of 15 different owners and be ome steadily more anemic under each one. By this spring it was down to just 30 pages a day. Circulation was a slim 63,000. The paper was managing to eke out a small profit only through such stringent economies as cutting its reportorial staff to a grand total of four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Competition in Sacramento | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

Making its U.S. debut in Manhattan, Munich's Bavarian State Theater performs Woyzeck in German (simultaneous translations available) with brilliant fidelity of tone-stark, spare and stinging. Into a landscape of damnation walks Woyzeck, a simple soldier, poor, puzzled, and haunted by voices and apparitions. To eke out his army pay he becomes a guinea pig for a medical fanatic who puts him on a diet of nothing but peas and exhibits him to his students, an experiment no less dehumanizing for being silly. Woyzeck's firmest hold on life is a woman (Elisabeth Orth) who has borne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Birth of the Non-Hero | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...against Princeton. Corris, however, has not been pushed all year and has plenty of tenacity over the last 100. Look for him to stay a yard of Buckley's 1:03 plus pace for the first 100, churn into the lead with about 50 yards to go, and eke out the upset of the afternoon in record time. It's possible...

Author: By John A. Herfort, | Title: Crimson Should Sink, Not Swim, at Yale Meet Today; Burns, Lynch, Pardee Are Contenders in IC4A Track | 3/5/1966 | See Source »

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