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...many as six dozen at a sitting. Billy Casper, the year's top money winner ($81,515 so far) swears by a diet of buffalo steak and mooseburger. Last week at Akron's Firestone Country Club, Al Geiberger, 28, won the big gest prize of his seven-year pro career -the $25,000 P.G.A. championship - and announced that he owed it all to peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Don't Forget the Sandwiches | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...prisoner, "you have been found guilty of three calculated, cruel and cold-blooded murders. I pass the only sentence which the law now allows: three concurrent sentences of life imprisonment." Then turning to the other defendant, Myra Hindley, 23, the judge decreed her two concurrent life sentences and one seven-year sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Maximum Sentence | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...size. "I am," he maintains, "the greatest basketball player in the world." Everyone might have agreed with him long ago if only he had stopped right there. Who else, after all, has ever scored 100 points in a single night or averaged 39.5 points per game throughout a seven-year pro career? Wilt never stops there. "I am also the greatest boxer and the greatest miler and the greatest weight lifter and the greatest shotputter and the greatest bowler and the greatest cook and the greatest lover," he says. It took his fellow pros a while to realize that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Basketball: Making the Giant Jolly | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

Damon will receive $68,544 to cover first-year expenses of a proposed seven-year study of Solomon Island societies "to relate culture to disease, and vice versa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Damon to Study Solomon Islands | 3/19/1966 | See Source »

Soviet economic plans usually seem more like daydreams than serious forecasts of intended achievement. The classic was Nikita Khrushchev's seven-year plan (1959-65), which promised to make Russia a Communist Utopia by 1970, complete with the world's highest standard of living and largest industrial production. Moscow's new leaders are more realistic. Last week Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin unveiled a new five-year plan that takes up where Khrushchev's seven-year plan leaves off. Gone was the old bombast, the exuberance, the phony dreams. And gone-for once-was the promise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: A Little Realism | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

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