Word: 54th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another problem is sponsorship. "You need about $15,000 a year for expenses to play the tour," says Lee Elder, who finished 54th in the rankings last year with earnings of $31,690, "and it is rare for a Negro to have a sponsor." As a result, says Ray Botts, 32, who won only $3,431 last season, many young black golfers cannot afford to sharpen their game with consistent tournament play and "they get disillusioned very quickly." Some are reduced to hustling duffers, while others who stick it out often do so at the expense of their prime playing...
Rusk addressed a dinner meeting of the Foreign Policy Association at the New York Hilton Hotel, on Sixth Avenue between 53rd and 54th Streets...
...colored lights and topped with a golden-haired angel in a blue brocade dress. The menu for Christmas dinner called for turkey, corn-bread dressing, string beans with almonds, sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping, rolls, cranberry salad, ambrosia and angel-food cake. The family celebrated Lady Bird's 54th birthday on Dec. 22. And even though Lyndon Johnson was putting in non-recuperative hours-conferring with Cabinet officers, working on his State of the Union message, examining and reexamining the budget requests-there was an air of almost leisurely good will around the ranch...
...Avenue of the Americas and 54th Street, the Ziegfeld Theater, which opened in 1927, last week also received its death warrant. It will be torn down to make way for a new 50-story structure, fifth new building to be built in three blocks along the avenue, making it a rival to Park Avenue for glossy new office buildings...
...thriving U.S. economy, now in its 54th consecutive month of advance, is creating new jobs faster than automation is eliminating old ones. In mid-August, the Labor Department reported last week, the number of Americans on nonagricultural payrolls reached an all-time high of 61.1 million, 334,000 more than in July. During the same period, total unemployment dropped by 350,-000 to 3,300,000, although the jobless rate remained at July's 4.5% - an eight-year low - because of a temporary decrease in the work force...