Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROSBURG, 33, is one of the most improbable of the younger stars. With small, weak hands, he has to pass up the pro's usual finger-entwined grip and just grab the club as though it were a baseball bat. Sweat fogs his glasses until he looks like a myopic insurance adjuster out for a Sunday round. He has muscle spasms in his back, an uncertain stomach. He once developed a skin allergy to leather: his hands broke out when he grasped the leather grips of his clubs. BUt Rosburg (5 ft. 11 in., 185 Ibs.), a second baseman...
...heating golf balls with pocket handwarmers fired by lighter fluid, because a warm ball has more bounce than a cold one. They share in the physical ailments of their profession: back trouble from the constant twisting of the spine (Finsterwald, Marty Furgol); a torn tendon along the third finger of the left hand that exposes a nerve, keeps a player from gripping his club firmly (Rosburg, Snead, Jack Burke Jr.). They share in their social life. Driving some 35,000 miles a year on the tour that begins in January with the Los Angeles Open and ends in December...
...Finger on the Problem. Raytheon's stock, which had reached a peak of 73⅞ the month Geneen quit, last week was down to 43⅛. Raytheon's 1959 earnings did not keep pace with the company's gains in 1957 and 1958, and its first-quarter 1960 earnings, announced last week as 56? a share, were also below forecasts. Despite a Government-guaranteed loan of $75 million, Raytheon has needed more and more money. Last week the company announced a $100 million bank-financed loan with which it hopes to retire its $75 million loan...
...These costs will, we think, begin to pay off in 1960," says Adams. "We are certainly far from satisfied with 1959 profits and with first-quarter results, but we've got our finger on the problem and we're doing something about it. I don't see any justification for the sort of gossip that you pick up on Wall Street that indicates that Raytheon is going to hell in a hack...
...Five Finger Exercise. A quite ordinary British family implodes with suppressed hate, nearly killing an innocent bystander...