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...weighed 175 Ibs. He was living in Elmira, N.Y., with his mother, and he won eleven letters at Elmira Free Academy. "About 30" colleges offered him football scholarships. But he chose Syracuse-just 90 miles from home. In 1959, as a sophomore, 205-lb. Halfback Davis gained 686 yds., scored 64 points-more than all ten of Syracuse's opponents combined-and led the Orangemen to an undefeated season, the No. 1 ranking, and a 23-14 victory over Texas in the Cotton Bowl...
...green and neatly two-putted for a birdie four. He then birdied five of the next twelve holes, bogeyed only once and clomped up to the 15th, a 501 -yd. dogleg left, with six under par on his scorecard. A drive like a German 88 carried him 305 yds. down the fairway, a crisp No. 4 iron nicked the green-and a curling 35-ft. putt plunked in the cup for an eagle three. Score for the day: a record eight-under-par 64 that gave him a two-stroke lead over Defending Champion Arnold Palmer. Nobody got any closer...
...troop-carrying aircraft, or towed by a Jeep, and is fired like an artillery shell from a tripod launcher. »An 8-in. howitzer (ten miles), a rapid-fire job that can pepper 200-lb. projectiles at a rate of 90 per hour. »Davy Crockett (1,200 yds.), the Army's smallest and top-rated front-line weapon, a light, tube-fired piece designed for use against troop masses, tank clusters, pillboxes and gun emplacements. Army plans call for three Crocketts per battalion, or a total of 120 in Europe...
...bookkeeper in a cotton mill, Vandendriessche, 30, loped leisurely through the Newton hills, had no thought of winning until two miles from the finish when he found Ethiopia's heavily favored Abebe Bikila staggering rubber-legged just ahead. Vandendriessche dashed past Bikila, crossed the finish line 500 yds. ahead of Connecticut's Johnny Kelley, the 1957 winner. > No Robbery: the $90,800 Wood Memorial, at New York's Aqueduct race track. Taking command at the start of the 1⅛-mile race, the undefeated bay colt belonging to Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson, owner of the oft-defeated...
Compact golf is several things. It is "pitch-and-putt," where the average hole is 50 yds.; "par-three" (also called "par-thirty" and "executive''), in which the average hole is 150 yds., with several par-four holes; and putting courses, also known as miniature golf...