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With the Japanese economy in an upswing, Goldman Sachs is teeing off. In May the investment bank launched Accordia Golf Co., a subsidiary that has become Japan's biggest golf-course operator by acquiring more than 60 clubs. About half are operating; the rest should emerge from bankruptcy early next year. During Japan's late-1980s bubble, schacho (CEOs) flooded the links, paying up to $1 million for a membership. Today a membership costs about $22,500. In the past three years nearly 200 of Japan's 2,400 golf courses have declared bankruptcy, according to Teikoku Databank, a credit...
WORLD BRIEFING A5 Euro paybacks; Goldman's golf deal; cell-phone shuffle; Toyota plays...
...George Plimpton, the world's consummate amateur... Consider what he has done. He has sparred three bloody rounds (his blood) with Archie Moore, then light-heavyweight champion of the world. He has pitched to major-league baseball stars in Yankee Stadium; he has shanked and hooked his way over golf links... and lost to Pancho Gonzales on the tennis court. He has fumbled handoffs as a training-camp quarterback for the Detroit Lions and missed baskets while working out as a forward for the Boston Celtics... He toured with the New York Philharmonic as a percussionist?and was severely chastised...
...this one’s for you. Based on the show originating in Harlem, N.Y., Apollo Night offers student performances that run the full entertainment gamut from song to dance to comedy. The talent show competition will be almost entirely judged by the audience, so remember your two-finger golf claps. The Black Students Association host and will donate all the proceeds to charity. Tickets $8, BSA members $5. 8 p.m. Lowell Lecture Hall...
...Harvard men’s golf team posted impressive scores across the board at the 69th Annual NEIGA Championship in Brewster, Mass. over the past two days, placing all five of its members in the top 52 and firing a 306-318—624 to finish third in the field of 45 New England teams...