Word: pars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India's hotels in New Delhi, Calcutta and Bombay are on a par with the Western world's finest, charge around $17 per day for an air-conditioned double room with meals, and serve splendid Indian food, e.g., curried shrimp, Tandoori chicken fried with spices. What to buy in India: fine carved ivory, emeralds and other gems well under U.S. prices, silk scarves and $10 saris, which local dressmakers turn info evening dresses for $40 v. $150 for sari dresses in the U.S. Average touring cost: about $26 per day per person...
Captain Jim Jorgensen (2:06.9) should improve over his fourth place finish last year in the 220. Only Indiana's Bill Woolsey (2:05.9) has posted a faster time this year. Gerald Tanable, also of Indiana, is on a par with Jorgensen...
...this tournament, each team played these prearranged hands and tried to match certain par scores which have been determined by the director of the tournament. Geoffrey Mott-Smith, who was assisted by a group of consulting experts...
...situation for a team varied with the hands. In some they could make a par score by playing on the defensive. In others they had to make the bid established for them by the experts. Boyd and Everett won at every opportunity...
...golf, and the tournament grind leaves no patience for prima donnas. Mondays are usually for travel to the next tournament; Tuesdays and Wednesdays are dedicated to practice, mostly with the short irons. (Without the heft to wallop man-sized drives off the tee, the girls have to nibble at par by polishing their approach shots. Their chip shots are deadly, and a delight to watch.) Evenings, for all the gin rummy games or the inevitable cocktail parties, the real pros still find it hard to relax. Given an open stretch of carpet, they are likely to grab a club...