Word: grasses
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Reaction was swift and encouraging. Australia, France and the U.S. all began planning last week for open tournaments of their own; in Forest HilHills, N.Y., the governors of the West Side Tennis Club, long a shrine of amateurism and site of the U.S. National grass court championships, voted to convert the Nationals into a U.S. Open and ante up prize money for the pros. With a whole series of open tourna ments in prospect, there was talk of such old pros as Lew Hoad, Frank Sedgman and Althea Gibson coming out of retirement. And the thought of making an honest...
...then, a few of the MacKenzie-designed holes have been remodeled to make them tougher for the 80 or so top pros and amateurs who compete each year, by invitation only, in the Masters. But the course remains essentially a "members' course,"-6,980 yds. of wide Bermuda-grass fairways and huge, rolling greens, flanked by towering pines and largely free of man-made hazards. "We don't have to spend money building bunkers or maintaining them," explains Clifford Roberts, 74, the austere, bespectacled New York investment banker who, as Jones's deputy, rules both Augusta National...
...initial act of progress is evolutionary. A series of brief scenes establishes the life cycle of the australopithicine before its division into what became both ape and man--they eat grass, are victimized by carnivores, huddle together defensively. One morning they awake to find in their midst a tall, thin, black rectangular monolith, its base embedded in the ground, towering monumentally above them, plainly not a natural formation. They touch it and we note at that moment that the moon and sun are in orbital conjunction...
AMERICAN PROFILE: HOME COUNTRY, USA (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Chet Huntley discusses the belief that the strength of the U.S. rests in its grass roots. Camera crews roam the countryside recording the lives of Americans from East Boothbay Harbor, Me., to Bozeman, Mont...
France's Claude Simon would agree with all these propositions, but he is less interested in erecting models of a thesis than in exploring the possibilities of language. In Histoire, as in The Wind, The Grass and other books, he turns fragments of the imagination into poetry rather than into the monotone prose that is the mark of most New Novels. Histoire should be read as poetry, which means it should be read aloud. Speed readers, trained to sop up information and the dull acknowledgments of psychological and sociological fiction, will have to shift into low. Histoire...