Word: wondrousness
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This year flu forced him to give up golf for two months. Until last week's triumph, he had not played in a month. Casper's putting faltered this spring, but for the Open it was wondrous. In four rounds he took only 115 putts. Said the new champion: "I knew that as soon as the putting came back...
...Able-Baker flight opened vast reaches for human attainment in biology and medicine (see SCIENCE). But far beyond that lay a plain but wondrous fact: if a pair of monkeys, subject to the same physical stresses as man, could return safely from space, so could man. The first human to break the chains of the planet might be named Glenn or Carpenter or Schirra or Shepard or Cooper or Grissom or Slayton. These were the U.S. Astronauts, one of them to be selected as their nation's first space traveler. But whoever the man who returns from space...
...minutes, the national flags of Viet Nam and the U.S. were in place. As the darkness gathered, the men of the orchestra took their places, and promptly at 8 p.m. the conductor raised his baton. Moments later one more corner of Asia was introduced to the strange and wondrous sounds of a live Western symphony orchestra. Occasion: a first concert in Saigon, Viet Nam, by Manhattan's touring Little Orchestra Society...
...Bonn, some of his more enthusiastic admirers were hailing his journeys as the diplomatic triumph of the age. SUPERMAC! HE DOES IT AGAIN ! headlined London's Daily Sketch. Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail-which, like most British papers, finds the West Germans too unbending toward Russia-had wondrous news to impart. In Bonn, confided the Daily Mail, Macmillan "completely won over Dr. Adenauer, to a system of step-by-step disarmament in Central Europe...
Trouble-Free Gadget. Today, still riding the crest of a tremendous postwar telephone boom, A. T. & T. is a vast, sprawling creature of wondrous efficiency. Since war's end, it has hiked its take on each U.S. phone from $5.25 to $8-while managing to cut long-distance rates between New York and Los Angeles from $4 to $2.50, and on shorter calls in proportion. Much of that money has gone into $19 billion for plant investment and new equipment, on which A. T. & T. now stands to cash in with dramatic earnings gains...