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Three weeks ago, Parmiter wrote our cover story on Jack Nicklaus, the 22-year-old wonder who won the U.S. Open. This week Parmiter chronicles the dramatic comeback of the old master, Arnold Palmer, whose amazing performance in the British Open will be the stuff of sport legends to come. Parmiter, a man of decided opinions, believes 1) that the competition in golf has never been as tough as it is right now. and 2) that Arnold Palmer "is the greatest golfer the world has ever seen...
Five restless weeks have passed since election day in Peru. Since no presidential candidate won the constitutionally required 33.33% of the vote, the three leading candidates have been sparring for office ever since. With so much at stake and the country divided by past feuds and violence, the wonder is that Peru has remained so peaceful. Last week one of three candidates gave way under the pressure and made a reckless bid for power...
Seldom has a company boasted so many suitors in such quick succession as Celotex Corp., a Chicago manufacturer of building supplies. It was his ardent pursuit of Celotex that brought about the downfall of the "boy wonder" financier, Eddy Gilbert (TIME, June 22). No sooner had Gilbert fled to Brazil than a New York building materials firm named the Ruberoid Co. decided to make a try for Celotex. It offered to buy 350,000 Celotex shares at $25 apiece-which was 8¾ above Celotex's lowest price after the Blue Monday skid but 17⅜ below...
...traditional Humanities and Social Sciences fields. Thus the total work load is very heavy. Professor Armistead has no desire to see the Humanities and Social Sciences time lessened; but on the other hand he sees no way to make set design less than a full-time occupation. "I wonder," he says, "if it's just asking too much...
Professor Beadle's reaction of awe in the face of the evolutionary process befits a man whose contribution to science has shown that very creativeness. We may wonder, then, if such a conception as his admits of the "retired God" that was found implicit in it (by Professor Beadle himself?). For do we not see in the evolutionary process a creativeness of an exceedingly high order...