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DIED. Clifford Roberts, 84, co-founder and president of the Augusta National Golf Club and for 43 years chairman of its prestigious Masters Tournaments; by his own hand (gunshot); in Augusta, Ga. A New York City investment banker and ardent amateur golfer, Roberts teamed up with Grand Slam Champion Bobby Jones to help launch the latter's "ideal" golf club in 1930. While its Masters Tournaments became well-attended sports classics, the austere, irascible Roberts kept Augusta National an exclusive golfing sanctuary for its 200-plus members. Among them...
...aides that he was not totally against Lance's leaving office. But the decision, he insisted, must come from Bert. At the time, Lance was determined to remain. On his own initiative, Presidential Assistant Hamilton Jordan flew that Saturday to Lance's vacation home in Sea Island, Ga., on the delicate mission of telling Lance that the continuing controversy threatened to cost the President and Lance too much. Recalls Jordan: "It was like going to see someone who was seriously ill in the hospital...
State Sen. Julian Bond (D-Ga.) last night spoke at the Law School Forum, reviewing the historical situation of black Americans and urging black leaders to broaden their focus and aim for racial, social and economic equality...
...Lance family later moved to Calhoun, Ga. (pop. 5,000), 65 miles to the southwest, where one of his sixth-grade classmates was LaBelle David, granddaughter of the president of the Calhoun First National Bank. LaBelle and Bert were married when they were both 19. In 1951, just before graduation, Bert had to drop out of the University of Georgia to find a job. The first of his four sons was on his way. Lance never did get a degree; he never needed...
...manner that would arouse the envy of the smoothest huckster. Outside his Graceland mansion, peddlers vend memorabilia, including dollar bills with Presley's portrait in place of George Washington's (price: $8). A package of 19 original Presley records is being offered for $9,500. A Columbus, Ga., used-car dealer is restoring the singer's first Cadiliac to take on a national tour. A Delaware outfit called Factors Etc., which has obtained exclusive merchandising rights from Presley's estate, plans to market posters, LOVE ME TENDER T shirts, jewelry, statuettes and Christmas-tree ornaments celebrating...