Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday's drizzle moved the tennis match with Amherst to the Palmer Dixon indoor courts, but Harvard's traditional depth shone through as usual...
...debut as a substitute disk jockey, struggled hysterically to keep up the machinegun patter. Sample: "Hey there! That was the great Ramsey Lewis Duo. . . aah. . .trio. . .whee. . .It's. . .aah. . . . . .three minutes. . .aah. . .I mean twelve minutes after three. . . wheee." At Chicago's WBBM-TV, Salesman Frank Palmer all but burned up the airways. Winding up the 5 p.m. news, he lit his pipe just like a real Walter Cronkite, burned his fingers, dumped tobacco all over the desk, grinned wanly and shrugged. In Los Angeles, KNBC viewers telephoned the station to complain that Pinch Newscaster Harry Howe...
...sponsor tournaments; they do not want the trouble, the expense-or strangers trampling their fairways. Another problem is pressure from the P.G.A.'s own members, particularly the less talented playing pros who want courses made easier to improve their chances of beating a Jack Nicklaus or an Arnold Palmer. "Easy courses are great levelers," explains famed Architect Robert Trent Jones, who has built or remodeled 350 courses around the world. "They are putters' courses. A really good golfer like Nicklaus or Palmer wins on good courses. On a bad course, their skill is no advantage...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:30 p.m.).*William Holden and Lilli Palmer in The Counterfeit Traitor (1962), based on the real-life exploits of Eric Erickson, an American-born Swede who sympathized with the Germans but spied for the Allied High Command in World...
Firepower v. Footwork. The President's new platoon also includes a military star: Lieut. General Bruce Palmer, 53, who was appointed last week as commander of Field Force II-a composite outfit of infantry, artillery and armored divisions that recently attempted, in vain, to wipe out the Viet Cong base headquarters near Cambodia. Palmer-who commanded the 23,000-man force in the Dominican Republic-replaces Lieut. General Jonathan Seaman. Having already proved his diplomatic deftness, Palmer will now have to adapt to a type of warfare where firepower counts less than footwork...