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...longest hitters on the pro tour (he once belted a ball 430 yds.), swung his driver twice (once on the tee, once on the fairway) on a 367-yd. hole and still wound up 30 yds. short of the green. Taking Kentucky windage on the oceanside 18th, Palmer sent a No. 3 wood angling out to sea, smiled happily as the ball blew back right in line with the flag. Scores skyrocketed: Don January shot an 88, and P.G.A. Champ Bobby Nichols checked in with a Sunday duffer...
...instant, some poor infant undoubtedly is being christened Rock Hudson Whosis. But Bing Crosby can go them all one better: he has a practical joke named after him. The Bing Crosby National Pro-Amateur golf championship is $84,500 worth of practicality and a barrel of laughs. Remember Arnold Palmer, who took nine strokes to get down on a par-three hole last year? And Bob Rosburg, who six-putted a green? And Bob Harrison, who joined the ranks of golf's mortals by firing an even 100 for the last 18 holes...
...Monterey Peninsula. One TV tower collapsed completely, and the rest were shaking so badly that the players looked as though they were dancing the Tahitian hula on millions of home TV screens. ("Sorry, folks," the announcer apologized. "We just can't hold the cameras steady.") Arnie Palmer winced with pain as a cloud of sand from the bunkers blew into his eyes. Tony Lema huddled against his caddy for protection from the pelting rain, and Amateur Robert Hoag was almost blown over backwards by a gust of wind as he addressed his ball for a drive...
...DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION: THE STRUGGLE by R. R. Palmer. 584 pages. Princeton...
Ever since the French Revolution of ficially ended in 1794, historians have asked whether it enlarged or diminished the sum of human freedom. Joining the debate with revolutionary fervor, Robert Roswell Palmer, a specialist in 18th century France who is on the faculty of St. Louis' Washington University, plumps unequivocally for the Revolution, charging that its detractors have besmirched an "inevitable" and largely admirable chapter of history...