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...line, both right, left, and center Don Gunn, should have an easier time with the Tufts line than with the mammoth Holy Cross defense. The Jumbos weights are about on a par with Harvard's, and the Crimson was able to clear a way through Holy Cross defenders who outweighed them by 20 to 30 pounds...
Going into last week's Portland (Ore.) Open, Nicklaus had played in 16 official tournaments, had won four including the Masters, finished among the top five in eight others. He won again at Portland, with a 72-hole total of 273, which put him 15 under par and three strokes ahead of Dave Marr. The $6,600 top money boosted his season's winnings to $134,045, a new alltime record. That makes $409,238 for Jack in four years on the tour-only a season or so away from Palmer's $600,000-plus, total...
Juliette Greco commit suicide? It seemed incredible to Parisians, as rumors spread that existentialism's chanteuse-muse had tried to exist no more by swallowing a "massive overdose" of barbiturates. By the time Juliette got back to her Left Bank town house from the Ambroise-Paré Clinic, reporters and photographers were jamming the street outside. "I am against suicide," she snapped, "and against pharmacists." Juliette's explanation: she'd just toppled over after taking two sleeping pills and a tranquilizer to try to relax...
Cody, also pledged payment to par ents who had not sued, even though a two-year statute of limitations has long since run out for such cases...
...Murphy, 22: the National Amateur golf championship, shooting a final round 73, two over par, to beat hard-luck Bob Dickson by one stroke; at the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla. Penalized four strokes in the second round when somebody (apparently, accidentally) put an extra club in his bag, Dickson battled back, only to bogey the last two holes and lose to Murphy, a stubby, cigar-chewing undergraduate from the University of Florida...