Word: honda
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Thompson's declaration stirred up a fuss around the P.G.A. event scheduled Aug. 9-12. Civil rights leaders mounted plans to picket the tourney. IBM, Toyota, Anheuser-Busch and Honda yanked ads from telecasts. The P.G.A., which has routinely played at all-white clubs since it was founded in 1916, vowed to stop it. At week's end, Mayor Richard Arrington, who is black, got a "statement of clarification" in which Shoal Creek's board of governors asserted that membership in the club "is open to any natural person over the age of 21." What the word natural means...