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...Some course should be open by the weekend." captain Yank Heisler said confidently yesterday. "We are looking forward to the start of our northern season...

Author: By Martin R. Garay iii, | Title: The Masters Opens, but. . . Golf Team Cancels Match; Courses Are Still Closed | 4/9/1970 | See Source »

...last year's seven lettermen, only captain Yank Heisler, Jack Purdy, and Steve Owen remain on the team. Senior Joe Tibbetts would have been the fourth, but he was placed on probation and will not again compete for the Crimson...

Author: By Martin R. Garay iii, | Title: Crimson Golfers Cap Tour With Decision Over Navy | 4/7/1970 | See Source »

...TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Marsh Clark reported last week: "It is far too early in the game to tell whether, when we yank out some of the props, the South Vietnamese structure will be able to stand on its own. However-and I think this is important -nothing has happened so far to indicate that Vietnamization will not work, while there is some very limited evidence that it might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Vietnamization: Policy Under Fire | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...splendid day for the seventh annual Henley-on-Todd Regatta, high point of the year for the outback town of Alice Springs, Australia. In broiling sunshine, yachts representing Australia and the U.S. fought it out for the Australia's Cup, while sun-bronzed Aussie and Yank oarsmen strained for the rowing championship. Children fished happily while lifeguards on surfboards kept an eye out for bikinied girls in distress. But as any Aussie will tell you, this was no run-of-the-millstream regatta. Consider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Ankles Aweigh | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...perfect, and therefore suspicious. But there were no M15 types on duty at Brown's ?only a myopic receptionist too vain to wear her National Health Service spectacles and a concierge who had been with the house for 43 years and certainly knew a well-to-do Yank tourist when he saw one: blue suit, rep tie, white handkerchief folded so that exactly half an inch protruded from the breast pocket; razor-cut hair, a bit dark for his age, and well-manicured fingers and lacquered nails clutching a copy of Fielding's Travel Guide to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Guide to Temple Fielding | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

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