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...nomination for the Man of the Year is Lee Trevino, because he brought laughter, excitement and suspense to many, many millions of people...
While preparing to putt during a friendly Acapulco match, Golf Champion Lee Trevino was startled to see an iguana slink onto the green and glare balefully at his golf ball. Trevino gingerly sank a 12-ft. shot from under the lizard's chin, then, since the iguana offered no objections, repeated the performance for local cameramen. The beast departed hurriedly only after Trevino picked it up and dunked it in the pool. When the subject of being Mexican was brought up, Trevino, a Dallas-born Chicano, allowed that he is "making too much money to be Mexican." The poor...
...After years of mutual attempts to improve Soviet-American relations, it is frightening that the Soviet Union still has so fantastic a view of U.S. affairs. But taken whimsically the novel view does help explain other puzzling developments in American life. For example, Golfer Lee Trevino's victories in the U.S., Canadian and British Opens are little more than a Mexican-American revolt against the Anglo-Saxon monopolists who have dominated the game. And the nationwide telephone strike is not a worker-boss conflict at all, but an attempt by harried parents to wrest control of the telephone from...
Will success spoil Lee Trevino? Never, he says, confident that his trying times are behind him. Thanks to the nitty-gritty experience of his hustling days, he says the pressure of competition never bothers him. "A $5 bet and only $2 in your pocket?that's pressure." What did get to him, though, was all the promoting and partying. Easily lured out for a night of carousing with friendly Fleas, Trevino all too often would live up to his happy philosophy: "I love livin'. Why go to bed? I like to party because I missed a lot of nights when...
...tour," he goes on, "gripe about the travel and the food and losing their laundry. Well, no matter how bad the food may be, I've eaten worse. And I couldn't care less about the laundry because I can remember when I only had one shirt." Even today, Trevino shudders at the thought of turning out in one of the snazzy ensembles favored by the other pros. "Wouldn't that be somethin'? Lee Trevino from El Paso stepping out on the course in a $150 pair of shoes, a $50 alpaca sweater and a $40 pair of trousers...