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...bean-pole six-footer at 15, Lyndon played forward on the basketball team, pitched and played first base for the town baseball team, took studies casually. "I wouldn't say I overapplied myself at all," says Johnson. "I liked to play and enjoy myself." No bookworm, he shunned fiction-and still does. Whenever his mother gave him something to read, he would ask: "But Ma, is it real...
Mighty Tough. At Houston's Bellaire High School, Greg Mermel also had a choice. A bright, cherubic-faced six-footer who had skipped fifth grade, Greg could have taken the normal courses, knocked off all A's. Instead he chose to test his mettle in Houston's tough "major works" classes for advanced students and wound up with a B-plus average, which led Harvard to reject him, Columbia to put him on a waiting list...
...adrenalin is running strong," Nicklaus beamed. "I'm all pumped up inside." The longest club he used for a second shot all day-even on the four par-five holes-was a No. 3 iron. And his putting? On the second hole, Jack rolled in a 22-footer for a birdie. On the fourth, he sank an eight-footer; on the sixth, a 20-footer. By the turn, he was five under par, and three more birdies on the back nine gave him an eight-under-par 64-tying the course record set by Lloyd Mangrum in 1940, when...
...time the leaders reached Cat Cay, just 44½ miles from Miami, it was a two-boat race. Don Aronow, whose boatyard had already turned out the successful Formula racers, had come up with a new boat: Donzi 007, a fiberglass 28-footer, with a deep-V hull like the Bertram and powered by two 450-h.p. Ford engines. His competition was Merrick Lewis, whose Holocaust (730 horses packed into a 23-ft. frame) was -that's right-an Aronow-designed Formula. With 007 throttled up to 5,800 r.p.m., Aronow was hitting a fantastic 66 knots...
Boston College took an early 2-0 lead on first period goals by York and Dick Fuller, North Dakota closed the gap to 32, but York's 20-footer gave the Eagles a safe lead...