Word: club
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICAN GOLF CLASSIC (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Champion Al Geiberger defends his crown in the $100,000 event at the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Final round, 4:30 p.m. Sunday...
...prearranged meeting site at 15,000 ft., waited two days without further contact with the higher party, an attempt to turn back was thwarted by the storm. After four more days, with supplies low, Wilcox and his group were in dire peril themselves until a party from the Mountaineering Club of Alaska came to their aid. After a harrowing nighttime descent, Wilcox swam four icy streams to reach the Wonder Lake ranger station, which sent a helicopter back to rescue his four companions...
...Baniyas in Syria, one of the three fresh-water sources of the Jordan River, Syrian officers had a felicitous club in a two-story building set amid troughs of rushing water that cooled its patio. The Israeli army has already decided that the place should be renovated and turned into a tourist restaurant. It will be administered by a kibbutz from a nearby valley that was hit hard by Syrian artillery...
When they are not drinking bitters at the Zambesi Club bar in London, the hearty-mannered young men in open-necked sports shirts spend most of their time carefully scanning the help-wanted ads. Right now there are few openings for their specialized skills. But they are sure that somewhere soon, most likely in Africa or the Middle East, they will find a fight that they will be paid to join. They are mercenary soldiers, members of a dwindling fraternity of adventurers who lay their lives on the line for money...
Kaffir-a-Day. Zambesi Club "meres" are white Rhodesians and South Africans from Colonel "Mad Mike" Hoare's Fifth Commando-a unit that left the Congo last April after stamping out a Communist-instigated rebellion of Simba warriors. Other mercenaries include Sahara-scorched French veterans of the O.A.S. uprising in Algeria, tough British colonial troops from the old Indian army, and unashamedly racist Rhodesians who joke about "sending a Kaffir a day to heaven." In the Congo, they earned the nickname Les Affreux (the Terrible Ones). Scores of them can be found in the bars of Johannesburg and Salisbury...