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...girls were concerned. In the second round, Kansas' Marilynn Smith shot a 66, and even from the front tees, that's a score any man would be proud of. But then she shot a third-round 77, and had to score a one-under-par 35 for the final nine holes to beat fast-closing Mickey Wright by one stroke...
...electors go through the list three times. The first time they try to classify the candidates as obviously electable, possible, and below par. (This, in itself, is no mean trick when all the candidates are at the top of a class of a thousand Harvard men.) They then go through again, raising or lowering the ranks of disputed candidates. Finally, they try to reduce the number of obvious candidates to the number permitted for election...
Croasdale matched his shot put finish with a second place in the hammer throw. Hampered by a slippery throwing circle, he managed only a sub-par 168 ft. toes. Northeastern's Bill Corsetti won it with a 187 ft. heave...
While the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's performance was below par last Friday night, the chief disappointment of Henry Swoboda's final appearance conducting the HRO was the quality of the program he selected. He played the same nineteenth century music, sometimes camouflaged by the names of composers from other centuries, that has characterized his two years here: and he compounded it with real, and bad, nineteenth century maunderings...
...week. Two days of rain washed out most of the practice rounds, but on opening day, the Georgia dogwood glistened in a warm spring sun, and the pros responded by giving the tough old Augusta course the worst first-day flogging in its history. In all, 15 players broke par (72), and at day's end five were deadlocked for the lead with 69s. One of them, of course, was Palmer. "Uninteresting," he called his round. Another was South Africa's Gary Player, despite an attack of tonsillitis that left him croaking like a bullfrog. And what...