Word: augusta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, after prolonged conferences with Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft. Benson, the President reached a decision. In Augusta, Ga., miles away from the clamor of Washington, he decided to let principle not politics be his guide. As he headed home for Washington. Dwight Eisenhower made up his mind to veto the farm bill. This week...
...Utterly Bad." Two national farm organizations, the Grange and the left-of-center Farmers Union, urged the President, to sign. Farmers Union President James Patton shot off a sardonic telegram to the President's vacation headquarters at Augusta, Ga.: WHILE YOU ARE GOLFING IN AUGUSTA, AFTER THE NINTH HOLE OF YOUR GAME, WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL PAUSE TO GIVE SOME CONSIDERATION TO THE AMERICAN FAMILY FARMER. WE FARMERS MUST HAVE MORE MONEY IN OUR POCKETS . . . WE WANT YOU TO SIGN IT, AND THEN PICK UP THAT LITTLE WHITE TELEPHONE ON YOUR DESK AND CALL EZRA BENSON AND TELL...
Surveying the Augusta National Golf Club for the first time, a Sunday golfer might be moved to wonder what all the shouting was about. For the site of the annual Masters tournament (and favorite course of President Eisenhower) is a deceptively simple layout, and par seems to invite a licking. But the masters of golf know better. The best pros have to scramble to stay on top at Augusta, and in the first 19 years of the tournament no amateur ever won the Masters. Last week, when 84 players teed off for the 20th Masters, the expectations and the odds...
...Georgia's Augusta Country Club, it was Ladies' Day for fair. Hippy, sunburned females overran the tight, exacting course and went ahead with their game even when a gusty windstorm chilled the fairways. Male club members held their tongues, for the invaders were no chattering, once-a-week golfing housewives cluttering up the greens or excavating in the sand traps; they were the 25 top players of the Ladies' Professional Golfers Association. The la dies were winding up their winter's trek with the Titleholders championship, the "Masters tournament" of women's golf...
Made to Order. "I don't know why," said freckle-faced Patricia Jane Berg, 38, at Augusta last week, "but somehow this tournament means more than the others. Everyone sort of naturally points for the Titleholders." Since she won the very first Titleholders in 1937, the chunky (5 ft. 2½ in., 140 Ibs.) Chicago redhead has pointed for it so successfully that she has taken first money five other times. Patty Berg's record puts her far ahead of ailing Babe Didrikson Zaharias, her closest competitor, who took three Titleholder championships...