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BRITISH OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 10:30 a.m. to noon). It's the Early Birdie that catches the winning putt on this live telecast from Carnoustie Golf Links, Scotland. The 97th British Open, oldest golf championship in the world, will be rebroadcast...
...wasn't the sort of sign usually posted in the Sheraton Boston Hotel. "No firearms may be carried in or out of the hall except by exhibitors," it read. But the hotel needed that sign last week, for it was hosting the 97th annual convention of the National Rifle Association--praised by its friends as "the defender of our rights to keep and bear arms" and damned by its foes as "the head of the gun nut lobby...
...arrangement was innocent enough. Though he ranks a lowly 97th in Senate seniority, Percy is deluged daily with some 1,500 letters and 200 telephone calls. Having exhausted his Senate office allowance of $279,306, he has had to dig into his own pocket for $80,000 to run his official business. The fund, led by the three Chicagoans, had as its goal $100,000 a year to meet Percy's expenses...
...particularly imaginative schemes for using the space over railroad tracks. The first, sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art and designed by a five-man team of New York architects, proposes building over a 37-block length of the New Haven Railroad tracks on upper Park Avenue, from 97th Street, where the tracks emerge from underground, north to the Harlem River...
...hands with Dick Gregory at Appomattox and congratulates him on the title of his new book. Says Heritage's popular editor-in-chief, Bruce Catton, "It's time for a change. We need a reorientation of attitudes toward the American past. Too few people realize that this is the 97th anniversary of the Burlingame Treaty which welcomed coolie labor to the United States. We hope to make the centennial into a big thing...