Word: prestwick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Memorial Chapel at St. Paul's Cathedral, waving, some shouting "We like Ike!" and "Welcome!" In Paris, the crowds were restrained behind the official pomp and glitter, but cries for "Eek" followed him everywhere. The Scots came for miles to cheer him, even though he had slipped into Prestwick Airport only for a weekend's golf and relaxation. As he slowed down at week's end to reflect on the unprecedented tour, reporters could tell that he was richly happy and well pleased with the whole thing...
...well. But never anything like that fine semifinal at Formby. With his crisp, choppy swing, the ex-tailgunner demoralized South Africa's Arthur Walker, 13 and 12. British championship golf had not known such a bad beating since Lawson Little won the Amateur title from James Wallace at Prestwick...
...AMERICAN World Airways hopes to cash in on West Germany's fabulous economic revival by starting direct flights between Berlin and New York. Scheduled time is 17 hrs., 11 min., including stops at Hamburg, Prestwick Airport, Scotland, and occasionally Gander, Nfld. Fare...
...rescue of grounded airmen. It has ferried passengers and cargo to remote landings that were unreachable by conventional, straight-wing planes. Last week the helicopter added new range to its versatility. In a 3,400-mile hop, skip & jump, a pair of Sikorsky H19 helicopters landed in Prestwick, Scotland, after a leisurely 16-day flight from Westover Field, Mass. For the first time, rotary-wing aircraft had spanned the Atlantic...
Both had played fine golf to reach the final over the famed Prestwick course. But in the first part of the final, both lapsed into a duffer game. Stranahan repeatedly pounded into the rough, got into half a dozen bunkers and four traps. Jittery Harvie Ward unhappily flubbed his chances by missing six putts of less than five feet (one an 18-incher) in the first nine holes...