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Expunging PUNG. There was reason to worry. In November, his Politburo announced details of an abortive coup d'état that aimed at the murder of Sékou and the overthrow of the regime. Chief local plotter: Mamadou (Petit) Touré, a distant cousin of the President who was fired last year from the directorship of a national textile firm for embezzlement. Last week Little Touré was rumored to be under sentence of death, along with two former government ministers, an army battalion commander and a slew of petty traders - all members, apparently, of an outfit known...
...Everyone had tournament jitters and they cost San Francisco's Hawaiian-born housewife, Jacqueline Pung, the U.S.G.A. Women's Open at Mamaroneck, N.Y. When she posted a last-round 72 for an overall score of 298, she seemed to have the title won. Although 72 was her true score on the round, she had a five on her scorecard for the fourth hole, where she had actually shot a six. When the error was discovered she was disqualified. The new women's open champion: South Carolina's Betsy Rawls, who had the second best 72-hole...
...Rochester (N.Y.) Country Club, Betsy Rawls tied the women's-course record with a 71 to beat, Mrs. Jackie Pung, who carded a 77, in an 18-hole playoff for the U.S. Women's Open golf championship...
...outhit a good big one. In women's golf, it seems quite the other way: the bigger they are, the harder they hit. By far the biggest of the women golfers these days is a roly-poly (5 ft. 3 in., 222 Ibs.) Hawaiian named Mrs. Jacqueline ("Jackie") Pung, who celebrated a victory in last year's Women's Amateur championship with a hip-swinging hula that brought frowns of disapproval from the staid U.S.G.A. This year, playing for pro pay, Jackie has restrained her hulas, but her booming 240-yd. tee shots have taken the play...
...French-German-Italian-Hawaiian Mrs. Jacqueline Liwai Pung, wife of a Honolulu fireman and mother of two, the U.S. Women's Amateur golf championship, two and one on the 35th hole, over Shirley McFedters, University of California at Los Angeles coed; in Portland, Ore. Roly-poly (210 lbs.. 5 ft. 3 in.) Mrs. Pung, 29, after winning was given a buss and a lei by U.S. Golf Association President Totten Heffelfinger, who asked her to bring her hula gear to next year's tournament...