Word: pars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...costs the player a stroke. Which one applied? Tournament Supervisor Joe Black said the first rule did, but he put in a call to U.S.G.A. Executive Director Joseph Dey in New York to be sure. Dey was not in, so Palmer played through. He coolly carded a two-under-par 70 for the round. Twenty minutes after Palmer finished. Black's rule was affirmed from New York...
...York Times. The very words have a lilt, not unlike clanging ashcans tossed from a refuse truck. What a treasure chest: James Reston, intrepid reporter and pulse counter to the Nation; Craig Claiborne, gourmet par excellence; Orville Prescott on books, Bosley Crowther on movies, Ross Parmenter on music; Seymour Topping reporting from Moscow, Drew Middleton from London, Roy Silver from Rockville Center, David Halberstam from wherever there was trouble, and Farnsworth Fowle, ace of the city-side crew...
Time was when finding a warm place to go to with adequate eating and sleeping accommodations was something of an achievement; it was par for the course if the beach turned out to be ten miles from the nearest hotel and the sand flies seemed insatiable. But today, with the increasing sophistication of the U.S. vacationist and the enterprise of the developers, the Caribbean offers something for everybody. In the bigger centers, new hotels provide the best in air-conditioned comfort and sophisticated food for those who want cocktail-lounge luxury, the dim-lit excitement of a gambling casino...
...arrangement with the Commercial Credit Co., Hughes now offers an easy-payment plan for helicopter buyers, putting them on a par with car buyers. One automobile dealer, San Francisco's Waters Buick Inc., has already got a helicopter on display in its showroom, where any impulsive shopper can step right up and buy it off the floor by plunking down 25%, or $5,625, with four years to pay the rest. There are also lease-purchase possibilities...
...competitors began to falter. Art Wall bogeyed three holes in a row. Arnie himself faltered momentarily on the 11th: he drove into the rough, overshot the green with his approach, staggered through a double-bogey six. "It was.'' smiled Palmer, "an easy six." Again, on the par-3. 234yd. 17th, Palmer seemed in trouble. His No. 4 iron carried over the green on the nubby apron. 50 ft. from the pin. Palmer studied the lie. He pulled out a putter, punched the ball-and watched it roll smack into the cup for a birdie...