Word: winner
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Then, last year, Alice Vonk, now 67, a widowed mother of eight from Sully, Iowa, sent in some seeds to Burpee's farm in California. The first crop of marigolds was not quite white, but its seeds were planted this year, yielding at last the winner. Mrs. Vonk, who picked up her check last week at Burpee's home in Doylestown, Pa., did it all without any highfalutin horticultural techniques. Every summer for the past 20 years, she simply picked out the flowers that came closest to the ideal and saved their seeds for replanting...
Died. Robert Cruickshank, 80, plucky Scottish-born Hall of Fame golfer and gallery favorite; in Delray Beach, Fla. Winner of 20 PGA tournaments from 1921-50, the "Wee Scot" played with an ebullience that once moved him to doff his cap, throw his club in the air and shout, "Thank you, God!" after a crucial shot bounced out of a brook and onto the green. The club, naturally, landed on his head...
...court without white lines. Each section was a different color-from brown to blue. Scorekeeping can be perplexing, particularly when it comes to tie breakers. This year Forest Hills has dropped the sudden-death tie breaker, but the replacement, a twelve-point tie breaker in which the winner must beat his opponent by two points, could go on even longer than the set it is supposed to shorten...
...spasmodic serve-and-volley offense, prompted Wimbledon Champion Arthur Ashe to predict last week that multiple upsets would rock this year's Open. Indeed, former Open Champion Stan Smith was ousted in the tournament's first night match under newly installed lights. As last year's Winner Connors says: "Everybody's a challenger...
...world's practitioners of the ancient aristocratic sport of fencing, none was more flamboyant than the Polish star Jerzy Pawlowski. Winner of an Olympic gold medal in 1968 and three-time world fencing champion in saber, the handsome 43-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Polish army was the undisputed sports hero of Poland. So great was the country's pride in Pawlowski's prowess that Polish Party Chief Edward Gierek is said to have brought the fencer with him to an informal meeting with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev...