Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WORLD SERIES OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Bob Goalby, Lee Trevino, Gary Player and Julius Boros, winners of the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open and P.G.A. respectively, play for $77,500 in prizes in a two-day, 36-hole tournament at the Firestone Country Club, Akron. Live coverage of the last five holes today and tomorrow at the same time...
...most ironic fate of all befell Brillo-bearded Jerry Rubin, 30, a former Berkeley free-speecher and now a yippie leader. To protect himself from police strong-arm tactics, Rubin hired a husky, sledge-fisted Chicagoan known as "Big Bob Lavin," whose beard and bellicosity were matched by his ability at bottle-throwing in confrontations with the cops. Big Bob was gassed by the police, fought them valiantly, but was finally clubbed into submission-carrying with him into jail Rubin's tactical diary. Only then was it revealed that Big Bob was really an undercover cop, Robert Pierson...
Hurting Good. Outgoing N.S.A. President Ed Schwartz summed up the student mood as "discouraged." Princeton's Bob Powell, a leading candidate to succeed Schwartz, thought the word should be "rage." Conservatives professed to see students as "more significantly aware" this year, while radicals contended that the emerging feeling is one of "violence." At times, in the wilting heat of a livestock arena on the Kansas State campus, the delegates seemed to be contending with all four moods at once...
...album stands as a timely symbol of the growing infusion of country sounds into the U.S. pop mainstream. More and more, country performers-from established figures like Buck Owens to newcomers such as Glen Campbell and John Hartford-are commanding national audiences. At the same time, pop performers, including Bob Dylan and the Byrds, are gravitating closer to the country style. "With better communications, there's more exposure of country music," says Cash. "I think people go back to it to find the basic thing, the grass roots. People like my songs, for instance, because there's realism...
Likely to Quit. Having retreated from positions that the Big Board once vowed to defend, the exchange's Bob Haack gave no further ground in last week's testimony in Washington. He accused the Justice Department of "applying theoretical concepts without supporting facts." Unregulated rates, he said, would cause brokers to switch a good deal of trading from the exchange floor to their offices, creating splintered markets in which ordinary investors would have trouble buying or selling at fair prices. Chairman Gustave L. Levy of the N.Y.S.E. board of governors was even blunter. Justice's proposal...