Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHELL'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Doug Sanders, Charles Sifford and David Thomas compete at the Singapore Island Country Club in Singapore...
...billed her farewell speech to the National Press Club as "The Swan Song of a Lame Duck." But Liz Carpenter, 48, Lady Bird Johnson's press secretary, might better have called it "The Last Hurrahs." There were plenty: "The big question is what Senator McCarthy plans to do. When reporters ask, he doesn't say anything. But he does let them kiss his ring ... I offered myself to Governor Walter Hickel as a national monument. He took one look and said, I don't believe in conservation just for conservation's sake...
King of Wings. At Manhattan's West Boondock, tor example, miniskirted waitresses ply the tables while a jazz combo plays softly in the background; there is a wine list, and Diners' Club or Carte Blanche cards are honored. The Player's Choice, a restaurant on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip that claims to be "strictly soul," is jammed to the rafters each night with customers-90% of them white- dining with apparent gusto on such soul specialties as barbecued ribs and yams. Melvin's, a soul-food place in the heart of Boston's department...
...audience to just about break even. Other productions (La Bohème, Les Sylphides, The Hostage) were less successful and, as costs rose far above revenues, the deficits began to pile up. Editorialized the Atlanta Constitution: "There is still an altogether too widespread attitude that culture is an exclusive club-something to be seen by black-tied, be-minked audiences only." Michael Howard, artistic director of the Repertory Theater, feels that "people ought to be able to go to the theater without a necktie if they want to. They ought to be able to buy popcorn. Theater should be part...
Vacation-bound Europeans can find a wider selection of resorts at Britain's Thos. Cook & Sons, fancier accommodations at Hilton hotels, or lower prices at youth hostels and campsites. The competition is intense, but even so, the Paris-based Club Mediterranee has prospered. For its 700,000 members, who pay $10 each in annual dues, Mediterranee has a unique attraction-the away-from-it-all ambiance of the 47 "vacation villages" that it maintains in 13 countries on five continents. Founded in 1950, the club has been increasing its revenues by 25% a year; in 1968 it took...