Word: winning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MURPHY, 25, 5 ft. 10 in., 210 Ibs., started playing golf only seven years ago, and his record is almost as flashy as Fleckman's. In 1965, he became the first player in 54 years to win the U.S. Amateur on his first try. Bob plans to get married next month because "the tour is no place for a bachelor." Last week, outfitted with a new set of irons, Murphy won $2,100 in the Doral Open and announced: "I'm playing with more ease every week...
...putts, and last month he tied Arnold Palmer for first place at the $100,000 Bob Hope Desert Classic in California-only to finish second after a sudden-death playoff. "Deane will be around a lot longer than I will," sighed Winner Palmer, "and he's going to win a lot of tournaments before he's through...
Unexpected verged on inexplicable as hot teams suddenly turned frigid, or sure losers suddenly won. How to explain, for example, the Canadiens' 21 games with only one loss-followed by three losses and a tie? Who could have predicted that the Bruins would win six out of seven with All-Star Defenseman Bobby Orr sidelined? And how about the Rangers, those longtime patsies? Last week they had a Stanley Cup play-off berth all sewed up, and were within striking distance of winning the N.H.L. championship-for the first time in 26 years...
...left free to seek its own price. The advantage of the system is that the open-market price might very well drop low enough to finally put some risk into speculating. Up to now, with the U.S. maintaining a bottom on prices, the trading has been a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose proposition in favor of the gold buyers. One disadvantage of the plan, however, could be a temptation among smaller central banks to buy gold officially at the $35 price, then turn around and sell it in the open market at a profit...
Glamorously, it was the last year in the coaching career of the late Harvey M. Love, a quietly confident man who died the following winter. "You win for a good coach just as much as you win for yourself," Captain Townsend S. Swayze '59 recalled yesterday, "and we were happy to make Harvey's last year so successful...