Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that same year by sweeping all four of the game's major tournaments: the U.S. and British Amateurs, the U.S. and British Opens. Retiring after his Grand Slam, Jones decided to build an "ideal" golf club on the site of an old indigo plantation in Augusta, a popular winter watering place for Northern socialites. The plantation's Georgian manor house was converted into a clubhouse, Scottish Architect Alister MacKenzie was commissioned to design a course that would, in Jones's words, "simulate the conditions of British seaside golf firm greens, even a little breeze"-and two years...
Ripe for Profit. The results were impressive. Without exception, seedlings Rideau wheat (a winter variety) that were continuously exposed to 5,000-cycle sound exceeded the weight of control specimens by from 250% to 300% and developed nearly four times as many potentially grain-bearing shoots. Under 12,000-cycle sound, growth increased from 20% to 50%. Dr Weinberger admits that she is mystified by the increased growth; the energy supplied by the sound waves is far too slight to account for it She suggests, however, that the sound waves themselves may produce a resonant effect in the plant cells...
...real surprise last week when new hope for peace in Viet Nam gave the stock market an exuberant lift. A paroxysm of trading twice shattered daily volume records on the New York Stock Exchange and sent share prices up enough to erase a third of the past winter's losses. Then, at week's end, the market settled back and waited to react again to events...
Veteran lefty Dick Ellsworth, making his American League debut after coming from Philadelphia in a winter trade, yielded nine hits in going the distance for the Golden Hose. He yielded a lead-off home run to losing pitcher Wilson in the third, but was in control for the rest of the game...
...CHICAGO--The White Sox have always had the best pitching in the American League; their problem has always been hitting. But two winter deals may have solved everything. From the Mets, Eddie Stanky's boys got two-time N.L. batting champ, Tommy Davis, and from Baltimore came shortstop Louis Aparicio. If Pete Ward and Duane Josephson have big years at the plate, and if Comiskey Park is still standing after the summer, then Chicago will...