Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WORLD SERIES OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Bob Goalby, Lee Trevino, Gary Player and Julius Boros, winners of the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open and P.G.A. respectively, play for $77,500 in prizes in a two-day, 36-hole tournament at the Firestone Country Club, Akron. Live coverage of the last five holes today and tomorrow at the same time...
...also maintain a vacation cottage in Kennebunk Beach, Me. The Senator fishes and hunts in the Maine woods, sails off the coast, and is an amateur carpenter. He has also become an enthusiastic golfer in the last four years, although his game sometimes looks like spring plowing. The golf can hardly be easy on his nerves. While usually self-effacing, Muskie has been known to have a volcanic temper...
...some of the wilder fighting, the demonstrators hurled bricks, bottles and nail-studded golf balls at the police lines. During the first three days, the cops generally reacted only with tear gas and occasional beatings. But on Wednesday night, as the convention gathered to nominate Hubert Humphrey, the police had a cathartic bloodletting. Outraged when the protesters lowered a U.S. flag during a rally in Grant Park beside Lake Michigan, the cops hurled tear gas into the crowd...
...girdle some cities. On planners' maps, green belts look wonderful. In reality, says Whyte, they have never served to contain a city's growth or to afford useful green space for its people. If open space just sits there without a positive function such as public park, golf course, or high-grade farm, Whyte says, it will surely be lost to a competitive good cause, like housing. In fact, the true theme of The Last Landscape is contained in Whyte's pithy phrase about open land: "Use it or lose...
Imagine a golf nut stationed in the Soviet Union, with nary a golf course in sight. That's how it was for U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson until friends in the United States Golf Association heard of his plight and rushed a portable driving net to Russia. It was promptly installed outside the residence, tensions eased, and Mr. Ambassador is happily walloping golf balls. Joseph C. Dey Jr., executive director of the association, sees it as "the beginning of a new and insidious invasion of Moscow." After all, the bug is catching...