Word: wind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...derives from the concept of private property, that "a man's house is his castle." This right was eloquently put by William Pitt: "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail-its roof may shake-the wind may blow through it-the storms may enter-the rain may enter-but the King of England cannot enter...
What was in Jack's favor was his enormous strength-to blast the ball into the wind and slash through the matted rough. In the first two rounds, he managed to wedge his way out of the weeds for nine birdies and a five-under-par 137, one stroke ahead of England's Peter Butler and three up on California's Phil Rodgers. There were some hairy moments on the third day, when Rodgers shot a fantastic 30 on the back nine (par 35) to take a two-stroke lead, while Jack faltered to a bogey-filled...
There is lots of money to be made in professional golf-for a man, that is. A chap like North Carolina's Randy Glover didn't have to win any of last year's 37 tournaments, could wind up 19th down the money list and still take home $42,522.11. Ladies' golf, with its smaller purses and fewer tournaments, is quite something else. Unless the gal happens to be Kathy Whitworth ($28,658 in winnings last year) or Mickey Wright ($196,382 in twelve seasons) pro golf is strictly egg salad-and sometimes not much...
...footer, obeying a simple logic: a longer waterline tends to make a boat faster. He then hung an immense 700 sq. ft. of sail above, counterbalancing it with a deep three-ton fin keel, while keeping the boat's underbelly flat for speed off the wind. Instead of streamlining the rudder into the keel, he stuck a spade-shaped rudder well aft, which gives such strong leverage that a twelve-year-old child has handled a Cal-40 in 40-knot winds. The bold tinkering gives the Cal-40 an almost prohibitively high rating of at least...
...noisy and her fiber-glass hull sweats so that she's definitely clammy," says America's Cup Veteran Bus Mosbacher, whose Cal-40 finished a respectable eighth in the Newport-Bermuda race. Others complain that she lacks speed on a reach (sailing across the wind) and shudder at her dumpy, short-bowed, ugly-duckling looks. "Why don't you make your boats prettier?" asked a friend recently. Grinned Designer Lapworth, "They get prettier every time they...