Word: player
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yards and two touchdowns, was told after the game by U.S.C.'s superb Halfback O. J. Simpson: "Gary, you're the greatest." Sportswriters and broadcasters agreed. By a slim margin over Simpson, Quarterback Beban, 21, was elected winner of the Heisman Trophy as college football's player of the year...
...another new hotel on Park Place for Howard Hughes, 61, the world's most indefatigable Monopoly player. Without emerging from his $250-a-day cave on the ninth floor of Las Vegas' Desert Inn, the phantom billionaire has concluded negotiations to take over the 650-room Frontier Hotel for a total of $9,000,000. Hughes's holdings in and around Las Vegas are now worth over $100 million, include the Desert Inn, Sands Hotel, Alamo Airways, 30,000 acres of land and the city airport...
Like most duffers, Henry Hook tried everything. He bought Jack Nicklaus golf clubs, Arnold Palmer golf gloves and Ben Hogan golf shoes; he memorized Gary Player's Positive Golf, watched Dow Finsterwald's Golf Tips on TV, and visited a Sam Snead Driving Range three times a week. He used balls with rubber centers, steel centers and liquid centers, switched from a cash-in putter to a bull's-eye putter to a mallet-head putter. And he still couldn't break 100. "I don't understand it," he complained. "I played worse last year...
Eddie Altwood, Harvard's number four player, clinched the victory in the fifth and final game of the final match. With the team score deadlocked at three matches apiece, Altwood came from behind to win his games, 15-12, and give the Yardlings the victory. Charles Heckscher, Rick Burton and Dave Taylor registered the other Harvard victories...
Miss Chace enters a ward where isolated patients sit idly around unaware of others or refusing to recognize them. Her goal is to free the patients from their tightly constructed defenses through dance--to emerge from their separation into a unified dancing group. Starting the record player, usually with a restful waltz, she asks each patient to dance with the group. The most difficult part of the job is recruiting the first few patients...