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Playing It Safe. For 18 wondrous holes, while Casper sprayed his tee shots, Fleckman blew sky-high and Palmer could not buy a birdie putt, Nicklaus was magnificent. He birdied the third hole from 12 ft., the fourth from 4 ft., the fifth from 14 ft., the seventh from 22 ft., the eighth from 4 ft., the 13th from 4 ft., the 14th from 5 ft. In all, he used only 29 putts. With a four-stroke lead and only the par-five 542-yd. 18th left to play, Jack decided to take no chances...
...reason why professorial salaries have skyrocketed is the increasing competition that private schools face from public universities. As higher education has become a politically popular field for legislators to support, the best of the state universities have found ample funds to lure professors from private universities with promises of sky-high salaries and unlimited research facilities. Some educators are worried about the growth of the public multiversities. Although two-thirds of the nation's 2,173 colleges and universities are private, their share of student enrollment has slipped from 50% in 1950 to 35% today...
...largest companies had opted out of Fun City, as Mayor John Lindsay likes to call it, within a year. At week's end, pint-sized (250 employees) Bohn Business Machines announced that it would also quit Park Avenue for suburbia. President Arnold Perry blamed rising city taxes and sky-high commercial rents...
...first time since Courrèges lifted hemlines two years ago - thus ushering in the yé-yé look and youth cult that nearly blew haute couture as well as skirts sky-high - there was news aplenty last week from the big high-fashion houses of Paris. Out to prove that yé-yé is only soso, 36 top designers presented new collections for spring and summer, striking out in all sorts of new directions...
...build 90,-000 new freight cars this year, against about 65,000 in 1965. In smaller measure, the steel industry is benefiting from an all-out drive to use its products as substitutes for copper, in everything from plumbing to refrigerator tubing. Reason: copper prices have been driven sky-high by copper-rich countries, such as Chile and Zambia, cashing in on a world shortage...