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Jack Nicklaus stood off fourth round bids by Tony Lema and aging Sam Snead to win the Masters Golf Tournament by a stroke in Augusta, Ga. yesterday. The 23-year-old Nicklaus became the youngest player ever to win a Masters. His 286 total was the highest winning score in seven years of play...
...mind an extensive test at Fort Benning, Ga., that has touched off one of the most bitter interservice squabbles in months. In it. the Army's newly created 11th Airborne Assault Division, and eventually some 15.000 men. will check the feasibility of a plan initiated by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to increase the mobility and striking power of ground troops-mainly by getting them off the ground...
...House defeated the amendment on a voice vote after Rep. Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) claimed that the President has the authority to make the change by executive order. It seems strange that Congress, which so often complains of the excessive powers assumed by the President, would not take the initiative in the case of this useful action...
...amendment was offered by Rep. Roman Pucinski (D-Ill.), and was defeated by a voice vote after Rep. Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, spoke against the measure...
Desire to Dethrone. The two big survivors of the top ten are both Southern: the redoubtable Jim Walter Corp. of Tampa, Fla., and Modern Homes Construction Co. of Valdosta, Ga. Unlike other firms, whose skimpy financing forced them to rely on high interest mortgage money, Walter and Modern Homes carefully, developed lines of credit that enabled them to do their own financing. An affable, smooth-talking Floridian who is a wealthy man at 40, Walter carefully built up his company until it now has 150 branch offices and is the second larg est homebuilder (after National Homes Corp.), with sales...