Word: pars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million skiers on New England slopes last winter, it is clear that skiing must now be classified as a mass sport. While the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley established America's ski terrain as equal to Europe's best, the 1964 games proved that American skiers were on a par with the crack Europeans. Olympic publicity in 1960 boomed interest in the sport the following winter, and there is every reason to expect the coming season to benefit in the same...
...Whosis. But Bing Crosby can go them all one better: he has a practical joke named after him. The Bing Crosby National Pro-Amateur golf championship is $84,500 worth of practicality and a barrel of laughs. Remember Arnold Palmer, who took nine strokes to get down on a par-three hole last year? And Bob Rosburg, who six-putted a green? And Bob Harrison, who joined the ranks of golf's mortals by firing an even 100 for the last 18 holes...
Goodbye, Arnie. On opening day, Palmer shot a one-over-par 72, six strokes off the pace-and was never heard from again. After two rounds, Casper was deadlocked at the top with Florida's Dan Sikes; Harney was a stroke back in third. A third-round 68 shot Paul into the lead, and the rest was easy-with a little bit of luck. Harney's wild No. 2-iron second shot on the par-five ninth hole barely missed a boundary fence, scooted through a crowd of fans in the rough, bounced into another crowd around...
...secret government contracts and a futuristic 50-year program for "leaving the earth." If the parents are willing to sell their child, the "specimen" goes through a memory-deleting process and submits to a chilling form of surgery that "ties off" the five senses. He is then on a par with his peers-computers...
...with President Johnson. In the first week after emergency treatment was applied, through $3 billion in standby financing from eleven nations to halt a panicky run on the pound, Britain's currency rallied on New York exchanges to a high of $2.7929. But that was still below its par strength of $2.80, and for the basic cause of the sickness-Britain's longtime negative trade balance-no cure was in sight...