Word: pars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson golf team wallowed to an eight-place tie in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament Saturday, as eleven teams battled par and driving rain at Beth Page...
Lowell is the poet par excellence of the particular. Too prosy for some tastes, he insists that poems must incorporate the prosiness of life; poetry must be as important as prose. He ignores the usual poetical devices that are calculated to woo a reader, makes no concession to sound for its own sake. As he describes Hawthorne in one poem, his head is often bent down, "Brooding, brooding, eyes fixed on some chip,/some stone, some common plant,/the commonest thing,/as if it were the clue...
Investment by Phone. Bear Coach Halas spoke in reverent tones of Unitas. "A great quarterback," he said. "A great day." Actually, for Unitas it was just about par: he has been averaging 15 completions and two TD passes a game ever since he broke into the N.F.L. in 1956. Of course, he almost didn't break in at all. The son of a Pittsburgh coal dealer, he was turned down at Notre Dame and Indiana ("I only weighed 145 then," he explains), finally settled for the University of Louisville. After graduation, the Pittsburgh Steelers gave him a tryout, sent...
Campen, with a 75-80 (155) tied with sophomore Brian McGuinn in the tournament's prescribed 36 holes. He won a sudden-death playoff with a par on the third hole to McGuinn's bogey after both had parred the first two extra holes...
...Tony Lema, 30: the World Series of Golf, shooting a two-under-par 138 at the Firestone Country Club in Akron. "Champagne Tony," the British Open winner, fired a last-round 68, coasted to a five-stroke victory and the biggest paycheck in golf: $50,000. It was all "unofficial" as far as the Professional Golfers' Association was concerned, but the victory boosted Lema's 1964 win nings to $122,555 - ranking him ahead of the two top "official" moneywinners, Arnold Palmer ($110,743) and Jack Nicklaus...