Word: golf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joining the Golf Society of Great Britain as its 1,000th member, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (handicap: 18), received a sturdy, useful gift: a wedge, "not for getting you into holes, but out of trouble." Posing like a duffer (head up, grip too far down on the shaft) with his new club, Lloyd mused about some off-course problems: "I am not a good golfer. But I am wondering whether this club is appropriate for a game of Summitry. I do, I know, spend quite a lot of time in the rough. I have a bad stance. I often have...
...until the 18th hole in the final round of the U.S. Golf Association's women's open did California's Mickey Wright, 23, admit to herself that she had a chance to win. Then she flubbed her approach shot and had to settle for a par. But she was still right where she had been all through the tournament-far in front. She finished five strokes ahead of Georgia's Louise Suggs, became the first woman ever to win the pro and open titles in the same season...
...Juan for $45, clack in their clogs through the lobbies of the Caribe Hilton and the new San Juan Intercontinental hotels. Twenty miles west of the capital, richer visitors will soon be able to loaf at Laurance Rockefeller's Dorado Beach Hotel, now abuilding, and golf under Pro Ed Dudley at the Robert Trent Jones course. "There is a great atmosphere of construction, vitality, change," says Roger Baldwin, who advises Puerto Rico on civil liberties, "and a great sense of leadership...
...rimless glasses, McCone quietly but energetically pursued a career of public service while advancing his private fortunes, became a director of the Stanford Research Institute, a trustee of Caltech, a regent of Loyola University of Los Angeles, helped form the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, took up gardening, golf. First role in national affairs came when Democrat Harry Truman appointed Republican McCone to the Air Policy Commission, where he helped Thomas K. Finletter write the farseeing 1948 report on the need for U.S. airpower, Survival in the Air Age. He was appointed Air Force Under Secretary under Finletter...
...Besides golf courses and women's clubs, today's Suburbia has some of the nation's most advanced public schools. The great migration from the cities to commuter-land, bringing hordes of new students in its van, has subjected suburban education to great strains. Many schools have responded to and grown with this challenge, however, and today a good number of suburban high schools are rated among the best in the country...