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...took five weeks of vacation this spring, spent most of it lying around the house, contemplating ways to get rich quicker. All that happened was that his golf game went to pot. But last week Tony finally staggered home $20,000 to the good in New York's Thunderbird Classic and made a solemn resolution. From now on, when Lema hears that Arnie Palmer or Jack Nicklaus is taking a week off to rest up for some big tournament like this week's U.S. Open, he will grit his teeth and swing away. Exercise, not rest, is Champagne...
...Among the Pines. At that, he almost didn't make it in the Thunderbird...
Bring on the Bubbly. The Thunderbird victory was Lema's first since January, and tripled his year's official winnings to $31,684-not quite the $49,006 he had last year at this time, but still worth a bubble or two. Within min utes, waiters were wheeling case after case of MoÖt et Chandon champagne into the press headquarters. At week's end, once again at the top of his game, Lema knocked in six straight birdies in Michigan's Buick Open, had a two-stroke lead at the end of 54 holes...
Somebody must have known where the fire was, but it wasn't the driver of the big red fire engine on the road outside Athens, because he slammed on his brakes to ask which way. The Thunderbird trailing behind was tooling along at the usual fast pace of its owner, Greece's dashing bachelor King Constantine, 24, with his sister, Princess Irene, 22, and it did not stop on a drachma. Instead, it crashed into the rear of the fire engine. The reigning monarch and Irene came out of the accident with a few bumps, but the front...
When it came to selecting a name for the sports car, Iacocca discarded Cougar and Turino, before settling on Mustang. A holdout until the end was Henry Ford, who wanted to call it the Thunderbird II, to borrow from the Thunderbird's prestige. Ford is not always so tractable, of course, sometimes settles arguments in his favor by simply saying: "Don't forget, my name is on the building." One such case was his insistence, after sitting in a mockup of the Mustang, that the rear-seat leg room be increased an inch. Iacocca and his men complained...