Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drum, Grass...
Back in 1961, leathery, ham-handed Farmer Hamrick started playing golf with fellow members of the local Lions Club on the only public golf course in the county. That gave him the idea of opening a course of his own. "I just started planting grass instead of cotton," he says. To raise capital, he sold 28 cattle for $2,800, mortgaged his property. With the help of a golf pro and an equipment salesman, he laid out and landscaped a nine-hole course on about 60 acres. Soon golfers flocked to his place and paid to play - $1 on weekdays...
...shadows of Harvard's gracious Kindlestick Park grandstand moved swiftly across the infield grass, the Crimson baseball team ended seven innings of lethargy with a three-run explosion in the eighth to gain a 5-2 victory over Tufts yesterday. The lengthy game lasted three hours and seven minutes, making chilled sportswriters late for important dinner appointments...
...Tender Grass (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). Repeat of a Passover drama by the late Morton Wishengrad, with Marian Seldes, Sam Wanamaker and Martin Brooks...
...concentrating on sex and sensibility in their novels (Junichiro Tanizaki's The Key, Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country, Yukio Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion), and the emotions of a single person interest them more than the entire Pacific war. "We are grass eaters here," says one Japanese writer good-humoredly. "So meaty a subject as war guilt is physically incompatible with...