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While most of the 135 players were struggling to maintain respectable scores, Vik was cruising along at two over par after 13 holes before he began to falter. He botched his approach shot to the par five 16th, dumping a wedge into a greenside bunker...
Inevitably, many of the new shows will falter, but this year the turkeys will be gone long before Thanksgiving. Replacement series are already in production. "Things were different in the past," notes NBC Executive Vice President Irwin Segelstein. "Now we've got to be ready for anything, any time." The race may be starting next week, but its end is nowhere in sight...
...backed off. Before the treaty revision could be concluded, Torrijos in October 1968 overthrew the existing government and immediately spurned the accord. Making a new treaty his major issue, he abolished political parties, seized control of the press, drove opponents into exile and saw his once prosperous economy falter. Latin American and indeed world pressures began to build on the U.S. In 1974 Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and then Panamanian Foreign Minister Juan Tack signed a "statement of understanding" that renewed serious negotiations...
...role in attracting not only new students but alumni dollars. He says he has never felt "any inordinate alumni pressure" to take more athletes, but says this might result from the fact that Harvard has "never had a big string of losing teams." If Crimson athletes were suddenly to falter, if the lure of Harvard were suddenly to fade, Jewett concedes the future might bring more pressure...
...ones to have lost games in the first five weeks of the season. Sutton, the ace of the staff, like a former Dodger righthander, Carl Erskine, catches the corners of the plate with his curve - and batters looking at third strikes. On the infrequent occasions when the Big Five falter, in motors Charlie Hough from the bullpen...