Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, United Auto Workers' Walter P. Reuther, and other leaders of big labor have publicly or privately expressed their disgust with the Teamsters' defiance of the Senate. This week, as united labor's executive council meets in Miami Beach for its midwinter powwow, the Fifth-Amendment issue is slated to be, as George Meany puts it, "the first order of business...
...Chen Ning Yang of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton were visiting Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory, whose pleasant summer climate and massive equipment attract vacationing physicists from all over the country. A leading topic at bull sessions, some of them held alfresco on Westhampton Beach, was the "tau-theta puzzle," which many leading physicists have been trying manfully to crack since...
Tribal Rite Playing a qualifying round on the rugged, wind-whipped links at Pebble Beach, Calif., a nervous young Nevada golf pro named Tony Lema tried too hard to recover from a bad lie, took a prodigious swing-and disappeared. He had fallen off an 18-ft. cliff. No one seemed surprised. This was the 16th annual performance of the West Coast tribal rite-complete with fairway high jinks and off-course bottle belting-known as the Bing Crosby National Pro-Amateur Golf Championship. Lema's leap was just the kind of accidental clowning that the crowd had come...
...general. The routine was the same for all players. Daytime: a round on the lovely, exclusive course at Cypress Point, a crack at the demanding layout of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, and then, for the pairs with the 40 best 36-hole scores, a playoff at Pebble Beach. Evening: a round of the parties that brightened every clubhouse and properly stocked private home from Carmel to Cannery...
Died. Louis Semple Clarke, 90, automobile pioneer who built his first car in 1896, a year afterward founded the Pittsburgh Motor Vehicle Co. (later the Autocar Co.), designed the first U.S. sparkplug and circulating oil system, built the nation's first shaft-driven auto; in Palm Beach...