Word: norwegians
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Over the years, the lethal 12th has been the site of countless tragedies. In the 1937 Masters, Ralph Guldahl, a stolid Norwegian, had a four stroke lead coming up to the 12th. His tee shot rolled into Rae's Creek for a double bogey and Byron Nelson went on to win by shooting a birdie on the same hole and an eagle on the 13th. In 1959, Arnold Palmer also met a watery grave as Art Wall birdied six of the final seven holes to catch him from behind...
This is the international tournament in which Harvard's number one golfer Alex Vik played in this fall as a member of the Norwegian team. The American entry of Nicklaus, Deane Beman, Bob Gardner, and Bill Hyndman won the event held at Merion that year with Jack shooting rounds of 66, 67, 68 and 68, a full 18 strokes ahead of Hogan's total of 287 when he won the U.S. Open...
Suspicions were aroused again just a few years ago, when Foreign Ministry officials began noting how uncannily well informed Soviet diplomats seemed to be on confidential Norwegian positions regarding European Community membership. Norwegian counterintelligence slapped a tight surveillance on Soviet diplomats in Oslo and eventually caught Printsipalov meeting with Haavik. After tracking the pair painstakingly for several months, they finally sprang their trap...
...Haavik as a Soviet agent evidently stemmed from her lifelong infatuation with everything Russian-especially men. Her first affair, in the 1930s, was innocent enough: it involved a refugee Soviet artist who left her with fluent Russian. Then, at the end of World War II, Haavik was recruited by Norwegian forces to work as a nurse and interpreter with Soviet prisoners who had been held by the Nazis in local P.O.W. camps. There she fell in love again...
Investigators in Oslo speculate that Haavik resolved to get to Russia to be reunited with her soldier lover after he was repatriated-a plan she fulfilled when posted to the Norwegian embassy in Moscow. But the soldier was threatened with imprisonment-in Stalinist times a common fate for ex-P.O.W.s whose loyalty was deemed questionable. The KGB offered to help, promising that he would be safe if she performed some favors at the embassy. Haavik never saw her lover again, but she became ensnared in the KGB system. By 1949, when Norway entered NATO, she was ready with...