Word: optometrist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final day, Nicklaus was tied for the lead coming into the back nine with playing partner Gary Player and optometrist Gil Morgan. Nicklaus proceeded to out-distance the field for the $50,000 winner's chunk with three birdies and a masterful eagle on the 15th that gave him a four stroke lead...
...Rapids also boasts cultural accouterments that would be the envy of many a larger city: a fine symphony orchestra, directed by Spanish-born Theo Alcantara, a ballet troupe and a civic theater. Jerry and Betty Ford buy season tickets, but they are used by his half brothers, Jim, an optometrist, and Richard, who works as manager for the Ford Paint and Varnish Co., which the Ford family sold to Standard Detroit Paint...
...been waving in his face. Utah Co-Chairman Douglas Bischoff (6 ft. 4 in.) intervened to get the poster back, but was challenged by Rosenbaum (6 ft. 1½ in.). Bischoff thereupon ripped Rocky's white Ford phone out of its moorings. Rosenbaum galloped after Bischoff, normally a mild-mannered optometrist, shouting to guards: "Arrest that man!" Bischoff was detained for an hour by the Secret Service. The phone was retrieved and Rocky, displaying less than vice-presidential dignity, held it high...
...Ford has three half brothers. Thomas, 56, is a staff analyst for the Michigan legislature. Richard, 50, manages the family paint store in Grand Rapids. James, 47, is an optometrist in that city...
...Partial color blindness, a genetic defect that affects over 8,000,000 Americans, is an incurable affliction. But for those who suffer from the most common form of the disease-the inability to distinguish between reds and greens-a Waltham, Mass., optometrist named Harry Zeltzer now offers some relief. He has found that a red contact lens, designed to be worn on only one eye, improves color discrimination. Zeltzer and other optometrists have prescribed the new lens for some 50 men, most of whom report that they can now distinguish colors they have never before seen...