Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ambling Ambience. Despite the demands of his social calendar, the President continues to enjoy the ambling ambience of his Western White House. The morning's work generally begins with Nixon's slipping behind the wheel of a Cushman golf cart (dubbed "Cushman One"). King Timahoe, the first family's Irish setter, often rides shotgun in the cart. The President drives 400 yards between his Spanish-style villa and the White House staff offices and enters the handsome new surroundings. In less than two months, the barren Coast Guard LORAN (long range navigation) station, which adjoins the Nixon...
...Beauty Boy-reading Plato so divine! O, dark, oh fair . . ."A melodramatic opening for a short, story, but consider the plot: the colored golf champion of Chicago, who reads Plato, loses a leg under a moving train and finally grows it back in Heaven. A magazine fiction editor might reach for a rejection slip were it not for the byline: F. Scott Fitzgerald. The unpublished "Dearly Beloved," a forerunner of the black-is-beautiful genre, was discovered among a collection of Fitzgerald's papers at the Princeton University Library, and is included in the first number of a schol...
...ironic that Floyd had cinched matters with a putt, since putting had been his biggest hangup through all four rounds at the National Cash Register golf course at Dayton. He took a total of 121 strokes on the greens-six more than Player, five more than Bert Greene, who finished third, and eleven more than fourth place Jimmy Wright. Floyd really won the P.G.A. with his booming, if sometimes errant drives, and with his beautifully wrought iron play. He hit 59 greens in par, compared with Player's 53. There was another ingredient in Floyd's winning eight...
...just about every golfer not in the P.G.A. class soon learns, golf balls are deceptively fragile items. They are prone to chipping, cracking or denting when not stroked properly. Keeping an adequate supply on hand makes the game an expensive pastime. Now modern manufacturing techniques are taking away much of the strain. At least four firms, including the Faultless Rubber Co. of Ashland, Ohio, and the Chemold Corp. of Jamaica, N.Y., are making "solid-state" balls that are all but indestructible...
...AVCO CLASSIC (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). The third round of golf from the Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Mass. The final round will be seen on Sunday from...