Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheerful about his ordeal was freshman weightlifter Jim Doty, who lost 32 lbs. training for the race and seven more running it. Competing as James Rotz of Waltham, Doty finished 79th in 3:30 flat. He collapsed after the race, as did several others, including one 70-year-old veteran. The luckier competitors merely end up with blistered and bloody feet. I'll never run again," Doty said afterward...
...course and slowed the slick greens, creating the kinds of conditions that make par (72) beatable. Ten golfers beat it-and the one who beat it most was a self-assured, young (24) automobile salesman from San Francisco. In the first round Amateur Ken Venturi, a protege of Veteran Byron Nelson, grabbed the Masters' lead with a flashing...
...went out in 38, two over par. Venturi, taking no chances at all, shot the same score. With only nine holes to go, the improbable seemed at hand. But the scoreboard showed one more pro still in there pitching. Ex-Marine Sergeant Burke, 33, a handsome, blond Ryder Cup veteran with a talent for finishing second in expensive tournaments, was chugging steadily toward...
Cried Author George R. (Storm) Stewart, professor of English at the University of California and veteran battler against California's regents' loyalty oath: "I am walking out. I will return to the University of California, where I shall inform my colleagues that the action you have taken here is tyrannous. I shall also tell them that they should wear their censure proudly as a badge of torture given by a tyrant." Added Frederic Heimberger, professor of political science at Ohio State: "As a member and loyal supporter of the A.A.U.P. for 25 years, I am shocked and dismayed...
...financing of needed expansion "simply cannot be done on the present earnings basis," the veteran steelmaster warned the New York Society of Security Analysts. Steel companies put a value of $60 per ton of ingot capacity on their books, while the market price of steel common stocks reflects a value of $78. This is far less than the cost of reproduction, which he estimates at $187 a ton, yet "it is on these bases of value that the steel industry is now showing its earnings and paying its dividends." Citing National Steel's own 1,000,000-ton expansion...