Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course's 130 real ones, a place for bogeys and double bogeys. Ike played six rounds in seven days, stayed in the gos most of the time, his strong long game suffered from a duffer's tendency to fail to follow through on some drives, and his short game, never too good anyway, found him three-putting many a green. The President, explained Golf Pro Norman Palmer, was "having trouble concentrating because of world problems...
...Molter eased him into top form at Arlington Park near Chicago, Round Table already had won $1,215,114, with 32 wins in 47 starts. In the dollar derby, he was ahead of Calumet Farm's Citation ($1,085,760, with 32 wins in 45 starts) and just short of the record set by Belair Stud's Nashua ($1,288,565, with 22 wins in 30 starts...
GOLD FUTURES TRADING is growing brisk for first time in U.S. as some speculators bet that gold price will be boosted from $35 per oz. U.S. traders buy 90-day gold futures from British and Swiss, pay 2% premium. British and Swiss sell short, i.e., borrow gold to sell to U.S. traders, because they figure chances of price rise are dim. Trading volume runs close to $1,000,000 a week...
Salted Caves. Norway's Heyerdahl got on famously with the native leaders, who claimed descent from the last surviving "long-eared" statue builder-the rest had been slaughtered, they said, by "short-eared" Polynesian invaders centuries ago. Easter Island's Mayor Pedro Atan demonstrated how the statues might have been raised on their platforms by having a crew of eleven men gradually pry up a fallen idol with poles, and then insert rocks under it until it could be lifted to its feet. It took 18 days. Convinced that the mayor possessed a secret handed down through...
Byzantine Bureaucracy. Says Moorehead about the struggles that preceded Russia's short-lived Constituent Assembly, when democracy went down to the whistles and catcalls of the Bolsheviks: "The field of action was now beginning to clarify itself somewhat in the manner of one of those Shakespearean battlefields where the opposing armies take up their positions in full view of one another, while the generals ride about from place to place making declamatory speeches...