Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longtime conservative company, might have been expected to go by the well-thumbed company book. But in the course of his career, Haider has often dared to be different; living in an Oklahoma oil camp in the 1930s, he was the only employee who stubbornly refused to cut his lawn at company orders, and was nearly fired...
Last week, by an overwhelming vote of 295 to 5, officials of the British Lawn Tennis Association decided to delete two little words - amateur and professional - from their rule book. Next year, all the game's men and women will be merely "players." So pros, for the first time, will be eligible to compete in the All-England championships at Wimble don, the oldest (91 years) and most prestigious tournament in the world...
...necessary, for a sport that too long has treated its best players - the pros - as second-class citizens, while allowing less talented "shama-teurs" to live lives of leisure on their expense accounts. The move was courageous, too. Only two of the other 83 member countries in the International Lawn Tennis Federation - Canada and New Zealand - have offered any real as surance of support...
...British may get some help from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association, which has yet to decide just where it stands. "I am against dishonesty," says President Robert Kelleher, "but I stop short of any abolition of all distinction between the amateur and the pro." Kel leher has promised to test U.S. re action to the British proposal in a poll of his membership next February...
...final dash, the escapee must cross the new version of the old Death Strip. This is now, variously, a 100-ft. lawn or a cinder covering, where powerful mercury-vapor lamps make even the most fleeting figure an easy target at night. In some places, there is the added hazard of hidden 6-in. steel spikes. In the unlikely event that he gets this far, the escapee finds himself before the New Wall itself. It is not only smoother and higher (15 ft. v. 9-12 ft.) than its predecessor but is topped by a 15-in.-wide pipe that...