Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although some experts rate De Vicenzo "the best striker of a golf ball in the world" for his smooth, powerful, self-taught swing, Roberto is virtually unknown in the U.S. - because he pre fers competition abroad to the pres sures of the U.S. tour. Not that U.S. courses or U.S. pros hold any particular terror for him. Last year De Vicenzo stopped off in Dallas to see friends, stayed long enough to win the Dallas Open and $15,000; this year, playing in only seven U.S. tournaments, he has earned a tidy...
...time bike racing may well be the world's most agonizing sport, and the pressure reaches a peak in the Tour de France-2,990 miles across the plains and mountains under a midsummer sun. Understandably, competitors often take a little something to boost their strength and spirit. Sometimes that little something is a little illegal...
Last week, as the Tour set out from Marseille for the climb up 6,273-ft. Mont Ventoux, Tom Simpson, 29, who in 1965 became the first Briton to win bike racing's world championship, was in the lead pack. Nearing the summit, Simpson began to zigzag, crashed into a rock pile and collapsed. Doctors rushed him to a hospital in a helicopter-but Simpson was dead. In his jersey pocket, police found two partly empty pharmaceutical vials-one labeled with the trade name for a brand of British "bennies"-and Tour promoters found themselves with the makings...
...doctors, who examined 700 children in the state during a four-day inspection tour at the end of May, said that existing federal programs were not coping with the problem...
...other doctors who compiled the Mississippi report have decided to continue exerting pressure on the government by making further inspection forays into poor rural areas. They will probably tour some part of Appalachia within the year, Coles said yesterday...