Word: yd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Open, the Masters, the P.G.A.) that had eluded him so far. Also on hand was Gary Player, who completed a sweep of his own by winning last month's U.S. Open. In practice, Nicklaus shot a 65, wowed spectators by reaching Royal Birkdale's par-five, 510-yd. 17th hole with a drive and a sand wedge. Tony Lema, the 1964 winner, went Nicklaus one better; he turned his silver trophy over to officials and said cockily: "Put this in safekeeping for me for four days...
...best college crew in the U.S. In the finals, to determine the best crew in the world, it was Ratzeburg against Vesper. Ratzeburg led all the way, finished half a length ahead, set a new Henley record of 6 min. 16 sec. for the one-mile and 550-yd. course...
...worst was the sixth hole, a 195-yd. par-three that everybody could reach-and hardly anybody did. On the first day, 37 balls were knocked into the pond guarding its kidney-shaped green-including one belonging to Canada's Bob Panasiuk, who earned extra distinction by rapping his in on a misdirected putt...
...nation was "more united than ever before." He had been looking forward to playing host next week to 3,000 delegates from some 60 nations at the second Afro-Asian Conference, and thousands of workers were laboring 24 hours a day on the construction of an 18,000-sq.-yd. meeting hall and on a general cleanup and trash-removal campaign in Algiers...
...Morio Shigematsu, 25: the 69th Boston Marathon, pit-patting over the grueling 26-mi. 385-yd. course in 2 hrs. 16 min. 33 sec. to clip a full 2 min. off the record set two years ago by Belgium's Aurele Vandendriessche; at Boston. Shigematsu led a parade of his countrymen across the line; Japanese took second, third, fifth and sixth places as well. Vandendriessche wound up fourth; first U.S. runner to finish was Ralph Buschmann in seventh place...