Word: golf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needed a vacation. At week's end he flew off to Newport, R.I., for the second straight year, packing 135 still-unsigned congressional bills in his baggage. Stepping from Columbine III, he squinted at the sun-spangled Rhode Island sky, smiled like a new man: "I hope my golf is as good as the weather...
...points to Ike. "I am every bit as good a fisherman," he says firmly, "as my brother." Both are ferociously intense painters, Ike in oil and Milton in painstaking watercolors. Before a slipped disk took him off the fairways, Milton shot an unorthodox but Ike-worthy game of golf (high 80s). Now and then the brothers get together with friends for an evening of bridge, but Milton, who has never progressed beyond the Culbertson quick-trick count, is admittedly overmatched...
Guiding such frail missiles as Royal Coachmen and Grey Hackles, NATO's General Lauris Norstad fished a chill, rushing trout stream in the Salzburg Alps, put in a four-day vacation near Hitler's old aerie at Berchtesgaden. From morning golf and afternoon angling he took off just enough time to make a short statement for the American Forces Network on the preparedness of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: "We still have some way to go, but we are now over the hump. Our strength is very real and very significant...
Donner today plays a little golf, reads history, has few other interests. As can be said of most top U.S. executives, a co-worker said of him last week: "What he really thinks about all the time, day and night, is this corporation." Almost always, it is in financial terms. Meeting young G.M. executives for the first time, he is likely to ask afterwards: "How much are we paying that...
...Francisco's oceanside Olympic Country Club lost $89,166 in the nine months ending June 30, more than a $100 deficit for each member. Olympic earned $55,241 on the bar and $7,635 from rooms; it fell into the hole on golf ($67,547), food ($23,062), dressing rooms and lockers ($4,754), also lost on general administrative expenses, the telephones and cigar stand...