Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early in the year that he had a paltry $14,400 in prize money just before the Masters in April. All of which was hardly enough to pay for the airplane gas. Nicklaus fixed that at the Masters with a withering third-round 64 that gave him a nine-stroke victory worth $20,000 and a 72-hole total of 271-17 strokes under par and three under Ben Hogan's 1953 record. All that Gary Player, Jack's runner-up at the Masters, could say was: "Fantastic!" At the Memphis Open in late May, Nicklaus seemed...
...most it would have seemed a stroke of calamity; to Belgian Baron Léon Lambert it was an act of providence. One wintry day in 1956, as the youthful baron's plane touched down at Brussels' airport, his brother rushed to tell him that the marble-columned 18th century mansion that had housed the venerable Banque Lambert for three generations had burned to the ground. But the old building had long since become too cramped to contain the mushrooming Lambert operation, which in the past ten years has quintupled deposits to $203 million and added 26 branches...
...chemistry student in 1892, stumbled upon a "dark crystalline mass" that later became the keystone of the billion dollar carbide industry, in 1900 turned to Florida hotel and rail development with his brother-in-law, Entrepreneur Henry Flagler, accumulating a personal fortune of $100 million; of a stroke; in Lockport...
MEDICAL CENTERS. Provides grants of $6.5 million over four years for regional medical complexes to combat heart disease, cancer, stroke and other serious diseases with clinical services and research...
Gaze of Respect. In the last exile in Hawaii, the now toothless "Tiger of Korea" lived on the donations of the local Korean community, first in a seaside cottage on Oahu, then, after a severe stroke in 1962, in a Honolulu hospital. There he died last week at the age of 90. His body was flown back to Seoul on board a special U.S. Air Force transport. Wary of possible repercussions among groups still bitter at Rhee's memory, President Chung Hee Park prepared Korea's second highest honor, a "people's funeral," instead of the full...