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Virtually all of its 400 white mission aries have been evacuated, and the sprawling Unilever palm oil complex at Leverville - Kwilu's biggest industry - has been idled, putting 18,000 natives out of work...
...said the TV announcer, and -sure enough-the man with the California tan and the strychnic smile was Arnold Palmer, 34, the No. 1 money-winner in golf. In nine seasons on the pro tour, Palmer had pocketed $473,008. But there it was, the final round of the Palm Springs Golf Classic, with $50,000 up for grabs, and Arnie had finished early, shooting three over par with the rest of the also-rans. Now he was lounging around the 18th green with a microphone in his hand, looking for people to interview. Explained Palmer: "I've been...
Withdrawal Pangs. No golfer can win all the time. But so far this year, Slugger Arnie is batting .000. At the Bing Crosby National, Palmer failed even to survive the cut; last week at Palm Springs, he wound up out of the money for the second time in five tournaments. His burly buddy Jack Nicklaus, who won $100,040 last year, had only $1,900 to show for three weeks of work. Both of them had excuses of a sort: Nicklaus was still out of practice from a seven-week fishing vacation in Florida, and Palmer was suffering withdrawal pangs...
...sold for as much as $10,000 a lot, and 1,600 more acres have been added. Fifty houses have already been built, and three or four more are started each week. The splendor of Carefree's citizenry encourages Promoter Darlington to think of his project as a Palm Beach with cactus. "Why," he chortles, "we have so many presidents and vice presidents out here, it looks like a roster of the N.A.M...
...much the same cool role some 200 times thereafter, winning brickbats from the critics (except in Shane) but such dogged admiration from the fans that, as he once said, "every time Paramount wants to meet the payroll, they start an Alan Ladd picture"; found dead in bed; at his Palm Springs, Calif., home...