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Open, he wound up with a dismal tie for 23rd. He thus did not qualify for the four-man World Series of Golf, an unofficial "exhibition" that used to be his private preserve: two years running, he had tak'en home the winner's purse of $50,000-biggest check in golf. His money came mostly in dribs and drabs, ranging from a low of $475 in the U.S. Open to $24,042 for winning Pennsylvania's Whitemarsh Open. Added up, it came to a pretty penny-but it was a tough way to make 100 grand...
Even serious baseball men have tak en to blaming it all on the weather. "The flags have been blowing inwards here at Cleveland Stadium," moans the Indians' President Gabe Paul. "And it's the same in other ball parks. When the pitcher has the breeze at his back, he figures he doesn't have to hold back, and he doesn't walk so many men." There are the old arguments about light and dark ("too many night games"; "too many day games") that seem to cancel each other out, and the usual deprecation of younger-generation...
Like U.N. missions in Korea and in the Congo, the Palestine operation has tak en quasi-permanent root, preserving not peace but a kind of frozen...
Captain Larry Johnson, who normally uses the foil, may fence epee today to bolster the squad. The epee team could tak only one of nine matches against Penn but must come through with several victories today...
...Died. Fu Tak-iam, 67, who started as a Cantonese doughnut peddler and wound up as the gambling czar of Macao by matching yens for fantan, cricket fights (in which trained insects do battle unto death) and cusek-a type of roulette played with dice; of a heart attack; in Hong Kong. A strapping (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) brigand, Fu was ransomed in 1946 for $150,000 when captors sent a slice of his right ear to relatives, but seven years later stalled on paying ransom for his kidnaped son until the gang proved their seriousness by slicing...