Word: tees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Birmingham. It was while he was in his post-Albany eclipse that King began planning for his most massive assault on the barricades of segregation. The target: Birmingham, citadel of blind, diehard segregation. King's lieutenant, Wyatt Tee Walker, has explained the theory that governs King's planning: "We've got to have a crisis to bargain with. To take a moderate approach, hoping to get white help, doesn't work...
...player tees off and smacks the ball at an illuminated picture of a fairway, 17 feet away. Elapsed time between the sound of club on ball and the ball's impact on screen enables the computer to calculate length of drive and probable roll within five yards. One of a bank of 30 lights behind screen is activated by ball and shows on screen as ball actually landing on fairway. Player presses a button and another picture appears taken from approximate position of ball. Player squints at the flag, picks his club, and swings again. On reaching the green...
With the foursome on the first tee, Arnie's army got the drift and cheered itself hoarse as Palmer, gulping cortisone pills to ease the pain of a bursitis attack in his right shoulder, one-putted six of the first nine holes. For Nicklaus there was open hostility: he ignored it for 17 holes, and then his approach to the 18th green bounced through a sand trap. "Hold! Hold!" shouted the crowd; a loud groan went up when the ball flipped safely past...
...took Palmer to calm everyone down. On the first tee next morning, he wrapped the unhappy Nicklaus in a bear hug. "Hi there, ole buddy!" grinned Palmer, and the two marched down the fairway arm in arm. Able to concentrate again, Nicklaus regained his steady brilliance, was able to open a two-stroke lead by the end of the first nine. Palmer managed to pull even on the twelfth hole, but then on the 13th he punched a two iron smack into a tree and wound up with a double bogey that ended all chances...
...chrome-plated auto wheels, and hopes for a free lift on advertising from Buick, which will offer similar wheels (made by United) as optional gear on its '64 models. Other firms are narrowing their lines, with the intent of making fewer products better than anyone else. Beau-tee-Fit Co. of Los Angeles retrenched from manufacturing a full line of brassieres to only top-quality models, lately has begun to specialize in nursing bras. Detroit's American Electrical Heater Co. gave up appliances to concentrate on soldering equipment...