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Both shot 70s on the first round. Hogan, playing his usual deliberate, calculating game, added another 70. Snead, more flamboyant and erratic, shot a dazzling 67, for a three-stroke lead. Sharpshooting Sam, not forgetting the usual Hogan hex, was nevertheless bubbling: "I'm riding a hunch that's almost infallible. Almost every time I play the short holes in par, or better, I win. And I'm three under par right now. I've had four deuces, three threes and a four...
Next day F-86 Sabre jets spotted a formation of the new planes, but the Reds refused to fight. The Air Force's first hunch was that the Russians were trying an advanced new MIG, possibly the much rumored MIG-19. But later the Air Force guessed that the new plane is either an older, experimental MIG model never mass-produced, or no MIG at all, and dubbed it tentatively "Type...
...Author Russ, it was a lucky hunch. Quivering Earth finally brought her the heady experience of first publication. What it brings to the reader is a story of the Florida Everglades that has more heart than art. So long as the heart beats firmly (about half the distance), this story of the big swamp has the endearing ingenuousness of a primitive painting, and some of the lushness...
...hunch, Davenport approached the man again last October. To Davenport's surprise, the young engineer asked a number of questions which showed his familiarity with the work of Perkin-Elmer Corp. This time he accepted with alacrity another invitation to visit Norwalk. In due course, he accepted...
...immeasurably increased. Airfields are being strengthened, but there are few indications of extensive rail and road building, the kind that would be necessary for a long, sustained war, as distinct from a quick blitz. Western intelligence officers regard 1952 as "the big year" of supreme tension, but the cautious hunch of almost every qualified observer...