Word: parred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last week Jack looked as though he could use instruction; in the American Golf Classic at Akron, he shot a ten-over-par 80-worst round of his pro career...
...which has operated under a New Jersey charter ever since it was put together by old J. P. Morgan−will merge with a subsidiary and incorporate in Delaware, whose corporate laws and taxes are among the most lenient in the U.S. The company will also increase the par, or nominal value, of its common stock from its current mathematically unwieldy $16⅔ to a more tidy $30 per share, largely to facilitate bookkeeping...
Cyrus Harvey, owner of the Brattle, offered a par explanation last night when he compared the Bogart films to Greek tragedies. "The audience is a kind of chorus," he pointed out. "The dialogue is way ahead of its time: it doesn't age." Consequently, people keep returning to see the same films and "chant the lines along with the actors," Harvey said...
...before the Masters in April. All of which was hardly enough to pay for the airplane gas. Nicklaus fixed that at the Masters with a withering third-round 64 that gave him a nine-stroke victory worth $20,000 and a 72-hole total of 271-17 strokes under par and three under Ben Hogan's 1953 record. All that Gary Player, Jack's runner-up at the Masters, could say was: "Fantastic!" At the Memphis Open in late May, Nicklaus seemed out of contention, five strokes off the pace after 54 holes. Then there came Jack with...
...course, was high up, fighting for his second P.G.A. victory. Jack was grousing about his drives, then his approaches went a trifle sour. Even so, going into the final hole, he was still two under par for the tournament, tied with Billy Casper and barely two strokes behind his playing partner, Dave Marr, a journeyman golfer who had not won a tournament since 1962. A birdie for Nicklaus and a bogie for Marr would mean a playoff. Teeing off for the 470 yd. par-four, Marr hooked his drive into a fairway trap, while Nicklaus slammed one 300 yds deadcenter...