Word: tees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's atomic scientists. Should the U.S. start a crash program to develop a hydrogen bomb? Strauss pleaded for it, but Lilienthal and the other three commissioners argued that the U.S. had a sufficient atomic superiority. J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of a general advisory commit tee of scientists to AEC, maintained that the doubtful project would only divert personnel from the proven A-bomb program. To Strauss's side, however, came AEC Physicist Edward Teller, whose studies indicated that the H-bomb was scientifically feasible, Connecticut's Democratic Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Committee...
...both of his matches by crushing his Pennsylvania opponent 4-2 and his Columbia man 3-1. But the guts golf of the day was played by Dave Rudnick when he parred the eighteenth to defeat both of his opponents two up after having been told at the eighteenth tee-off that the team score was 3-3 in both matches...
...groused later, "that I couldn't have made the Podunk Open." Fretting, frowning, fuming, he shot a Sunday golfer's 39 on the par-36 front nine, made mistakes that would make a duffer blush: a smothered drive that carried only 100 yds. off the tee, a No. 5 iron that smacked into a tree and caromed back over his head. Before he finished the round he had dropped to third place, behind Dow Finsterwald and Player. To his caddie, Nat ("Iron Man") Avery, Palmer said sadly: "Well, Iron Man, we lost the tournament there." The caddie shook...
...never had such pressure on a bill," grumbled a veteran Democratic Congress man. "You've seen nothing," replied Ar kansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Commit tee. "I've had more pressure on this bill than you've had in your whole 20 years in Congress." The bill: President Kennedy's tax-revision plan. Source of the pressure: Kennedy...
...first-rate golfer, he teamed up with famed Sammy Snead to win a Phoenix pro-amateur match in 1940. Barry dismayed his well-groomed partner by showing up in a soiled shirt, faded khakis and paratrooper boots, further irritated Snead by dubbing his first drive twelve yards off the tee. Snead, who had never met Goldwater, growled to a friend: "Can't that s.o.b. even afford golf shoes?" But Barry birdied one hole, scored eagles on two more; by the time the twosome finished well ahead of the field, they were fast friends...