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...years, whenever anybody asked why amateur tennis was floundering, the sport's white-flanneled bigwigs have had the same answer: Jack Kramer-king of the professionals, enemy of amateurism, exploiter of the sport. As boss of a touring troupe of play-for-pay pros, Kramer was luring away top amateurs with fat contracts and destroying the game's appeal...
...ever won so many tournaments so early in the season: the record for victories in a single season is 19, and that was set by Byron Nelson in 1945, when many pros were away in service. No one has ever won so much money so early; when Palmer set the one-year record ($75,263) in 1960, he had picked up only $48,000 by the middle of May. In one furious, six-week stretch that culminated with his play-off victory over Johnny Pott last week in the Colonial National Invitational, Palmer won four tournaments. Said Pott...
Nicklaus has done well enough since. His earnings of $14,674 put him seventh (just behind South Africa's Gary Player) among the pros. But though he has been a short-priced favorite to win every event he has entered, he has yet to score a victory in 13 starts. In Burneyville, Okla., for the $20,000 Waco Turner Open last week, he could reflect on some harsh differences between the pro and the amateur game, and on the problems of moving into a man's world...
Tools of the Trade. The presidential green light sent the testing pros at Livermore and Los Alamos into an explosive burst of activity. A thorough series takes up to 18 months to prepare; they were given five months. Each lab sent its suggestions on what to test to Washington for top decision by AEC Chairman Seaborg. Military experts fired off plans to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Actual programming was done by AEC's atom-wise general manager, Major General Alvin Luedecke, 51, and Defense's brilliant, abrasive research chief, Harold Brown, 34. At McCone's suggestion, Kennedy...
...last week, as the Celtics beat back the Philadelphia Warriors in the Eastern Division playoff, and the Los Angeles Lakers toppled the Detroit Pistons in the Western Division, even the pros seemed a little tired of it all. Contact on the court came often and carelessly; the fouls were no longer subtle. In one game, the Celtics' defensive specialist Bill Russell seemed determined to stomp the opposition down (see cut). Pile-ups under the basket were alive with flying elbows. Tempers flared, and the Celtics' Sam Jones (6 ft. 4 in.) picked up a photographer's stool...