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EVER since they first appeared in the magazine last fall. TIME LISTINGS have been enthusiastically received. The editors' choice of books, movies, TV shows, Broadway and off-Broadway and on-tour plays have been both a guide for readers and a closely studied report card for pros. In keeping with the season, the department has put on a straw hat, and this week's LISTINGS has a selection of the most interesting summer theater offerings from Maine to California...
...form, Hoad managed to beat Gonzales on this year's tour, 15 matches to 13. But Hoad still consistently lost to Gonzales in key tournaments. And because Pancho mopped up the other touring pros-Aussies Ashley Cooper and Mai Anderson-he came out with top prize money ($29,150), thereby retained his pro championship under Promoter Jack Kramer's frankly capitalistic scheme of rankings...
...specifics, his performance would have set the Republican pros to sniggering contemptuously at another man. Pointing to New York's Representative John Taber, senior Republican on the House Appropriations Committee and as given to penny pinching as Governor Rockefeller is to free spending, Rockefeller said he had "learned all I know about budgets from John Taber." Pointing to New Jersey's Representative James Auchincloss, Rockefeller said that "anything Charlie Auchincloss does is usually good for Republicans," joined in the general laughter when he discovered he had used the wrong name...
...roughest, most highly skilled infighters in U.S. politics, Republican Halleck, in less than six months as the House minority leader, has given his party its most effective legislative leadership in years, and in the process spotlighted one of the most professional of personalities among the battle-scarred old pros in Congress...
...tournament named for him and played on his home course at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., aging (46) Sam Snead, one of golf's most brilliant (and most erratic) pros, tore the Greenbrier course apart, had eleven one-putt greens, posted a fabulous 59. Eleven under par, it was the lowest score ever recorded in a major golf tournament. Though he has blown big leads in his time, this one was too much for his competitors, and Snead coasted to an eleven-stroke victory...