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...18th green at Chicago's Olympia Fields Country Club, in the uncertain twilight, Carl Jerome Barber squinted cautiously down the shaft of his putter at the ball. A long 60 ft. stretched between him and the cup, and Dallas Pro Don January, 31, would take the P.G.A. first money if Barber missed. Barber didn't miss. He sank his putt and a tie was his. In the play-off next day, holing long putts with fresh assurance. Jerry Barber finished one stroke ahead of January to become, at 45, the oldest and smallest golfer ever...
When Hiss counterattacked with a libel suit, Chambers finally introduced the charge of espionage, and supported his case with the nearly forgotten documents that he retrieved from his wife's nephew, who had stored them inside an unused dumb-waiter shaft. But even then, Chambers did not produce the microfilm-later he explained that he was afraid it might contain material that would damage other people. With characteristic melodrama, Chambers hid the film roll in a hollowed-out pumpkin in a field on his Maryland farm, surrendered it only when he became convinced that a committee counsel suspected...
...ocean-testing its new models. Chris-Craft engineers are experimenting with jet engines for boats. They are also testing a new "outmount" drive unit that combines the best features of an inboard engine (lower center of gravity, less fuel consumption) with the good points of an outboard (the drive shaft kicks up if it strikes an obstruction, can be raised for beaching and loading aboard a trailer...
...gliding gracefully around him. A 7-ft. dusky shark broke slowly away from his companions and hovered near the skindiver. Suddenly, maddened by the scent of ground ray, the shark flicked his powerful tail and bore down on Slaughter, jaws agape. The shark killer grasped his powerhead's shaft and drove the weapon against the onrushing shark's head, shattering its brain...
...high-priced field, the Thunderbird rose from 1.2% to 1.6%, helped by an optional bendable steering shaft that folds back for easier entering (90% of the buyers demanded it). Lincoln Continental, which offered a two-year warranty, also rose, but to only...