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...Brooklyn Dodger fans, though relying on ear-splitting whistles instead of clanging cowbells. Countrymen were cheered lustily, as long as they were winning, and foreign rivals were jeered, with gusto. The racket was deafening for visiting pole vaulters, who are accustomed to the polite silence accorded a golfer bending over his putt. Wladislaw Kozakiewicz of Poland finally shut up the unruly crowds with a world record (18 ft. 11 ½in.), then defiantly shook his arm at them. Said he: "The public was very bad. It was like boxing...
More recent victims of back trouble have included Cyrus Vance, Edmund Muskie, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Sutherland and Barbra Streisand. Sports figures suffer from back pain too. Golfer Lee Trevino and former New York Yankee Infielder Tony Kubek have been strick en. Earlier this year Hockey Center Stan Mikita of the Chicago Black Hawks was permanently sidelined by his aching back...
...generally insists on a minimum two-year deal with a 15% fee increase the second year. Budget-minded advertisers willing to settle for less than No. 1 one can hire Vitas Gerulaitis for a modest $30,000 annualy, Skier Jean-Claude Killy for $25,000, Golfer Ben Crenshaw for $20,000 or twelfth-ranked tennis player Peter Fleming for $15,000. But Borg is the one they want...
...ladder," and adds that "golf certainly helps, it's a very social game." Though golf has a lot to do with "shaping character," she insists she can live without it, and has no delusions about the stacked deck she must play with in her quest to be a pro golfer. "I think I'm one up on many women on the tour who bank on playing golf the rest of their life. I have a good education...
...change seems at hand. As the 44th Masters begins this week, for the first time in more than 15 years Jack Nicklaus is not favored to win the tournament he has dominated like no other golfer in history. His Masters record forms the core of his unprecedented list of 15 Grand Slam titles: five Masters, three U.S. and British Opens and four PGA championships. But Nicklaus, 40, has not won a tournament since July 1978, and last year he dropped to 71st on the list of money winners after 18 years in the top five. His place...