Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limited to 200, regulated loosely on a geographical quota system (no more than 50 members, say, can come from the New York area), and rigidly controlled by Roberts and Jones. "As far as I can recall," says Roberts, "nobody has ever been invited to be a member of this club that Bob and I haven't met." Augusta National's dues are a secret, as is its membership list-although some of the members are so prominent (Dwight D. Eisenhower, Rubber Baron Leonard Firestone, Sportsman John Hay Whitney) that their identities are hard to hide. And no club...
...founded in 1930 by Jones, the wealthy Atlantan who astounded the golfing world that same year by sweeping all four of the game's major tournaments: the U.S. and British Amateurs, the U.S. and British Opens. Retiring after his Grand Slam, Jones decided to build an "ideal" golf club on the site of an old indigo plantation in Augusta, a popular winter watering place for Northern socialites. The plantation's Georgian manor house was converted into a clubhouse, Scottish Architect Alister MacKenzie was commissioned to design a course that would, in Jones's words, "simulate the conditions...
...lawn; millions more will watch on TV. Only one of the competitors in U.S. golf's most prestigious tournament can win the $20,000, the green coat and the lifetime playing privileges, but all will leave proud that they were even invited to play at Augusta National, the club that three-time Masters Champion Jack Nicklaus calls "a monument to everything great in golf...
...chairman of the board of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. Married to an English girl, Ken Hyman is a relaxed Anglophile who openly wishes his work would allow him to live in London. As a compromise of sorts, he had his script-cluttered Hollywood office decorated in dark-paneled English-club style. Hyman first earned his stars as an independent producer in 1965 with The Hill, an acerbic antiwar film that starred Sean Connery in one of his few impressive non-Bond roles. Hyman moved up to the big time with The Dirty Dozen, one of the top grossers...
...them, the battle cry of women's rights was only a musty echo from the past. Yet, 120 years after the Seneca Falls declaration, women's clubs are still holding "First Ladies Luncheons." And last week in New York a prominent female correspondent was barred from a press luncheon with British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Roy Jenkins. The gathering took place in a men's club...