Word: parred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were already known to Western aviation experts, and others were simply old models with new touches, the flypast made bunk out of Nikita's boast that Russia had consigned its warplanes to junk. Judging by what they saw, Western observers concluded that the Russians are roughly on a par with the U.S. in the quality of their fighters, clearly ahead in variety, if not quantity, of supersonic bombers...
...Masters last April and his frustrating performance over St. Andrews in the 1960 British Open, when he lost by a stroke-Palmer blazed out the kind of game that made him the top moneymaker in golf history last year (with $80,738). He fired the first nine holes in par 36, came home with a whirlwind 34. After a birdie on the 16th, he blasted an eagle three on his jinx hole, the lyth, which he three-putted three times last year. He birdied the last hole, finished five strokes ahead of Player. Though the match added...
...After a nearly disastrous second round of 80, blonde golf pro Mickey Wright, 26, fired rounds of 69 and 72 at Baltusrol in Springfield, N.J., ran up a five-over-par 293, won her third woman's national open title in four years...
Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*Two top female golfers -Barbara Romack and Mickey Wright- meet two top male golfers in a no-handicap struggle, conducted on a specially constructed, all par-three-hole course in Las Vegas...
Then Littler, playing his patented, deliberate game, picked up momentum. He birdied the 7th, 11th and 13th holes to draw even with par. The gallery rushed to watch him, and Littler did not let the rubberneckers down. His consistent, steely-nerved game meant the difference. He took the next four holes in par, bogeyed the 18th when a putt fell 2 ft. short, came home with a 1-over-par 281. It was exactly what he needed: Bob Goalby, onetime Darien, Conn., club pro, had finished earlier with a 282. Sanders, playing behind Littler, knew he had to birdie...