Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things in Spain, but not the golf courses. As he left the new links at Sotogrande near Gibraltar, Franco asserted himself. The two-hole course on his estate outside Madrid obviously wasn't rough enough, so he sent word to his gardener to find out how the Sotogrande club has come up with such difficult fairways and greens...
...line social arbiter. Parties can mean anything from a small conversational dinner with a string quartet in the next room to taking over a discotheque or having a couple of short-order cooks come in at midnight to make omelettes for 50. The grand, slumbering old men's clubs have lost much of their importance or have taken on alarming new guises: New York City's refurbished Princeton Club, for instance, now evokes Conrad Hilton more than F. Scott Fitzgerald...
...Atlanta-at least until the north wind blew. A crowd of 150,000 turned out to cheer the Atlanta (formerly Milwaukee) Braves as they paraded down Peachtree Street in the company of the Dogwood Festival queen, Mrs. Atlanta, the Queen of Posture, and a whole hutchful of night club bunnies-blinking in the unaccustomed sunshine. It was still 70° at 8 p.m., and 50,761 excited fans jammed the city's new $18 million stadium to watch the Braves take on the Pittsburgh Pirates in the season's first night game. "Who's going...
...beautiful lyric soprano, who left a $150,000-a-year job as TV's Chrysler Girl for an opera career, making her widely acclaimed 1964 Metropolitan debut as Violetta in La Traviata: Frank Tashlin, 53, Hollywood writer-director of slapstick comedies (The Man from the Diners' Club); on grounds of cruelty; after twelve years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...faint pucker played fitfully across his cheeks. Between moves, he toyed with a fan. In every other respect, Ryuji Iyeda last week remained glacially calm. Only 28, he was taking on nine of the best Go players simultaneously in Manhattan's Nippon Club. But then Iyeda has been playing the ancient Oriental board game constantly since he was eight, now ranks as a fifth Dan professional (ninth Dan is highest) in his native Japan, where Go has been the national indoor game for as long as anybody can remember. Besides, this time was really only a warmup: later...