Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in Washington for a talk to the Burro Club, the gathering of aides to Democratic Congressmen, he was by turns philosophic, nostalgic and proud. He looked forward to the day when he would teach at the University of Texas, looked backward to the happy times when he was a Congressman and Senator, and looked sideways at the historians who will judge the achievements of the Johnson years. "I believe that you know," he said, "and that our children will know, and all history will know, that that is an unparalleled record." The fencing for a site to negotiate with...
...just where a perspiring fatty can't quite grasp it. It's as precise and complicated an art as needlepoint and gets about as much attention." Investigating other byways of sport, Broun reported on the Copacabana waiter who felt that "presiding over the organized frenzy" of the club complemented his training as an umpire, the little-known pro golfer who, without an army of following fans, is "as lonely as a mountain climber," and the football game between two highbrow Eastern colleges that "left the field strewn with contact lenses...
...ranch homes stood the vandal-and weather-ravaged remains of another 450 abandoned houses, many only half-built. During eight years of neglect, streets caved in; tumbleweed rolled across once well-kept lawns and against the legs of curious sightseers. Golfers at Bellehurst's Los Coyotes Country Club were forced to climb over rotting piles of lumber and weed-cracked concrete slabs when they tracked errant drives into the rough...
...complex legal battle. Southern California Developer Cliff S. Jones paid $4,530,000 in 1956 for a hog farm on the border of Los Angeles and Orange Counties and laid grand plans for wrapping his 906-acre community around a 27-hole golf course. Los Coyotes Country Club was quickly completed, but a five-month plasterers' strike left Jones with house after unfinished house he could not sell. After the strike was settled, Jones was unable to resume construction. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board cut him off from further funds by seizing control of his money supply...
...going to go into business as a career. If the business community really wishes to attract the best young men from the liberal arts colleges it must begin to pay them in intangibles as well as with money, pension plans, and memberships in the company country club. Able young men must be paid with the intangible currency of responsibility, of freedom, and of the chance to make mistakes. They must be allowed to ask the crucial question of "Why?" as well as the usual...