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...Firestone Country Club, he took on both Palmer and South Africa's Gary Player, winner of this year's P.G.A. title. Nicklaus beat them both-by an overwhelming four strokes, touring the course in two days with a 36-hole score of 135, five under par. For his efforts, he won another $50,000, the richest purse in golf, while Palmer and Player, tied at 139, split a soothing $25,000 in second-and third-place money...
...Outpouring. Testimonials to the quality of Dirksen's leadership come from both sides of the Senate aisle and from nearly all factions within both par ties. Just recently, Connecticut's middle-roading Republican Senator Prescott Bush, who voted against Dirksen for minority leader four years ago, stood up to speak to the Senate. Bush is retiring from the Senate after this year, and he wanted to pay tribute to Dirksen. "He is," said Bush, "one of the very few men in the Senate who actually make votes when they speak on an important issue...
...watched, and a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED photographer snapped away, JoAnne blasted her way out of the trap with-for heaven's sake-a No. 5 wood, instead of the normal wedge. The ball plunked down just a few feet from the edge of the green, and she made her par 4, went on to win the tournament. "I always go for broke," said JoAnne. "It's a shot most women golfers don't know how to play, but it's a shot all golfers should learn...
...university. He weighed and tested the faculty for academic content, found one-third (250) substandard, including 16% with only a B.A. degree. The "low" men got no more raises. Today, with a 19% bigger faculty, 38% higher pay, and the first sabbaticals ever, only 42 profs are under par. The others, as one official put it succinctly, "shaped up or shipped out." Bright Image. Medicine is a Pitt strong point. But in engineering it lags behind nearby Carnegie Tech-which worries an economically troubled city that longs for federal research contracts...
Even though West German generosity is below par by U.S. standards, Washington hopes that Bonn's aid program will not founder in the spate of criticism. But the Germans have much to learn. As one Bonn foreign aid official puts it: "Because we lost our colonies early, we come to Africa and Asia with 'clean hands.' But that also has disadvantages. We don't know them or understand them...