Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year's British Open which concluded two weeks ago turned out to be nothing short of a real rannygazoo, as the English would say. While the rest of the field sturggled merely to save face, Americans Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson began the final round of play all even and proceeded to bandy birdies with impunity on the regal links of Turnberry on the Scottish seashore. In a compelling finish to golf's most venerable spectacle, Watson shot a five under par 65 to edge out Nicklaus by a stroke, who thus became a runner-up in the British...
...minors before he was pushed, at Owner Calvin Griffith's orders, into the starting job at second base. He batted .292 his first season and was named Rookie of the Year. (The National League's top rookie that year turned out to be quite a player himself: Tom Seaver.) Two seasons later, Carew stole home seven times, tying the major league record. His manager was Billy Martin, now the godfather of Carew's older daughter, Charryse. "I taught him how to steal home," Martin says. "That's all I ever taught him. As for hitting...
Cats may not possess nine lives, but some could make the Guinness Book of World Records with only one. Tom Cadillac, so christened for his feat, was accidentally shipped in a Cadillac chassis from the U.S. to Australia-a seven-week trip at the time-and was still alive on arrival. He had eaten the engine grease and the car's instruction manual. Chat Beau, a four-year-old male, found his human family in Texarkana...
...President Carter's press secretary Jody Powell, Dooly County Farm Agent Mack Sloan manages a weak wisecrack: "If it don't rain here soon, a lot of people will go under and have to go into selling roadside peanuts to Plains tourists." Farmers in every county, including Tom Chandler, Billy Carter's partner in several peanut deals, are collecting one dollar for every acre of peanut land so they can hire an airplane for a month's cloud seeding at a total cost of $75,000. Last week the chairman of the fund-raising committee. Bill...
Television, which got its start at CBGB's, wraps its big beat in mellifluous instrumental colors. Lead Singer Tom Verlaine's lyrics, like the following from Venus, are among rock's finest in years...