Word: club
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday, February 8 THE BOB HOPE DESERT CLASSIC (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). The fourth round of the annual golf tournament, live from Indian Wells Country Club in Palm Springs, Calif...
...conservationists were led by California's potent Sierra Club. Though it originally supported the idea, the club bridled at the project's Disneyland proportions (proposed 1978 capacity: 8,000 skiers, 3,300 overnight visitors). It claimed that such numbers would cause overcrowding, might result in erosion from road drainage and upset the ecological balance of the 20-sq.-mi. resort valley. It also objected to the construction of an essential access road through 8.5 miles of the Sequoia National Park...
...forestry service) behind the development and Interior (which runs the park service) opposed to it. Before leaving office last month, Interior Secretary Stewart Udall finally approved the highway plan, noting that it would not result in the removal of a single redwood. However, both he and the Sierra Club had already created the impression that the developers would be violating a pristine piece of America's wilderness...
...impossible to see from one cottage to the next. There are no radios at La Gazelle d'Or, no television sets; phones can be switched off, and the only prod to physical activity is a swimming pool-unheated. Compare that with the kind of activity available at the Club Mediterranee's 650-guest "vacation village," 45 miles away at Agadir on the Atlantic. "You name it, we do it," says Manageress Marcelle Fayt. "Sailing, riding, tennis, yoga, judo, camel riding, Scrabble, swimming, sunning, pingpong, desert safaris, deep-sea fishing, drinking, eating, kissing and frugging." All in two weeks...
...thousand girls from a dozen eastern colleges participated in the program. They went to classes, roomed in dormitories temporarily vacated by the Dartmouth students, and participated in many extra-curricular activities. The girls helped put out a coed newspaper and were allowed to attend club meetings...