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...sudden we're a new glamour girl." Military activity currently provides 30,000 of the city's 187,000 jobs and about a third of the local economy. Some 12,500 retired military personnel have been drawn to the city by its mild climate (year-round golf), recreational opportunities in the Rocky Mountains and well-stocked PXs. "In Colorado Springs," says Garland L. Anneler, chairman of the United Bank of Colorado Springs, "generals are as common as dime-store clerks in other towns...
...Service protection and hundreds of thousands of dollars in Government allowances. Ulysses Grant went broke and, dying of throat cancer, spent his last days laboring over his autobiography to make some money for his survivors. By today's rules, King Lear would have spent a happy retirement on the golf course...
...Letting a hundred flowers blossom," said Chairman Mao, is a sure sign of "a flourishing socialist culture." Interpreting the Chairman's thought anew, with a view toward tourism, China is busily establishing golf courses. Ground was broken last week for one in the Valley of the Ming Tombs, 30 miles from Peking, by Politburo Member Wang Zhen. As Wang, 76, chopped away with a wedge on a slope that will soon sprout Kentucky bluegrass, a controversy was simmering over the selection of the site...
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...Harvard golf team wrapped up its season pleasantly yesterday, nabbing a 404-424 victory ever Dartmouth at the Country Club in Brookline...