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...that makes Peter Mayle something of a wonder. A devout sun worshiper and the husband of an expert amateur cook, he stumbled on a patch of Provence and left his native England without delay or regret. He did the things a lot of dreamers do: he bought language tapes, a 200-year-old house, a Citroen deux chevaux, and resolved to write a novel. But the renovation of ancient stone and the crafting of new fiction do not mix; each day workmen banished Mayle to a succession of chalky corners. So what could he do with his time except make...
...tour courses were at private clubs with no black members. The P.G.A. quickly imposed antibias rules, and Shoal Creek admitted its first black as an "honorary" member. Within months the women's and senior pro tours and the U.S. Golf Association, which sponsors the U.S. Open and Amateur tournaments, followed suit...
Worse, these compliant clubs are in the minority. At least eight others gave up major championships rather than meet the rules, although a few have since begun to admit blacks and can regain eligibility. The St. Louis Country Club in Ladue, Mo., ceded the 1992 Women's Amateur Championships, ostensibly because it is renovating its greens. The Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Ill., relinquished the 1993 Walker Cup. Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pa., took in a few blacks as junior members in recent months but withdrew from the 1993 P.G.A. championship because it could not guarantee that such...
That concern was cited by Cypress Point in Pebble Beach, Calif., when the club last September withdrew its dramatic oceanside course from a P.G.A.-sanctioned pro-amateur tournament that it had been host to since 1947. Cypress Point insists that it has no ban on blacks, although it has no black members and none on the waiting list, where the delay is seven years. Vice President Dan Quayle, who belongs to Maryland's male-only Burning Tree Country Club, played at Cypress Point in December; he said later he had been assured it "does not discriminate." Members may genuinely believe...
Last week, during a fireworks display in Detroit, an amateur photographer videotaped a gang of young black women beating two older white women while police stood by. After the tape aired on national television, six attackers were arrested and charged with unarmed robbery and assault. And in Fort Worth a woman standing in a friend's yard recorded a police officer beating a handcuffed car-theft suspect 28 times with his baton. The officer is under criminal investigation, and the suspect is free on bail...