Word: hayfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read the stories, a real-life Ragged Dick: a poor Mexican shoeshine boy who never knew his father, who learned to play golf by hitting "horse apples" with a sawed-off broomstick in a hayfield, who labored for $30 a week as a teaching pro until-hey, presto!-he won the U.S. Open and found fame and fortune. "Well," sighs Lee Buck Trevino, 28, "I used to tell sportswriters the truth, but they would just print what they wanted to, anyway. Now if they want to say something, I just let them...
...discovery was a fantastic mixture of technical skill and luck. It matched finding a needle in a haystack -or "perhaps in a hayfield," as one official put it. For all the tips from fishermen and experts' calculations, the bomb could have landed just about anywhere over an area of scores of square miles, and the parachute could have acted as a sea anchor in the swift coastal cur rents, tugging the bomb into less accessible depths. Then, too, the sea floor's shifting mud might have ultimately hidden the bomb from view...