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Fitzgibbons played the type of golf Walter Hagen once termed "unconscious." He started his round on the second nine and promptly birdied the par five 14th. He overshot the green on his second shot, a two-iron he caught flush, but chipped back and canned the putt. Like Dales, he also found a watery grave on the 16th but escaped with a bogey...
With 15 minutes remaining in the season, Harvard began at its own 27 and gave signs of things to come. Two unsuccessful runs were followed by a wild Kubacki aerial that overshot Chris Doherty by ten yards and a Scott Coolidge squip set the Elis up at their...
...pilot made the prescribed approach, he announced to the controllers in the airport tower that he wanted to try again. After a second turn, the Vanguard, sinking rapidly, was in a perfect slot for landing. But to the controller's surprise, the pilot suddenly said that he had overshot the runway. Then radio contact broke...
These regional variations pose a problem for economic planners of the second Nixon Administration. They will have to judge when the national upturn becomes overexuberant and should be dampened to head off a new inflation. But when that point is reached nationally, it may well have been far overshot in Florida, Houston and perhaps Chicago, while New England and New York may still be below economic...
...crashing down on top of me. The floor was gone, and people were screaming for help." Thus Cliff Retis, 23, described the horror of last week's commuter-train collision in Chicago in which 44 people were killed and 350 injured. A train of new double-decker cars overshot a flag-stop station four miles from the Illinois Central commuter terminal in the Loop and began backing up to the platform. Apparently a following train of heavy older cars was not properly warned. The lead coach of the second train slammed into the last coach of the double-decker...