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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days she reportedly cut short her visit and went home. Though her hosts may not have been paying much attention to her, she had obviously been listening to them. Back in Peking, she told French Premier Barre that China regarded Cambodia as a victim of "Vietnamese aggression"-the first open swipe at Hanoi heard in the Chinese capital since the war broke out in December...
...essence of the surrealist enterprise - like that of the 19th century romantics - was to open new channels for the creative mind. It produced, above all, an art of subject matter - a trait transmitted to its American offspring, abstract expressionism. "Beauty will be erotic-veiled, explosive-fixed, magic-circumstantial, or it will not be at all," ran Breton's famous description of the surrealist ideal. Much of the power of surrealist rhetoric does not survive translation: its use of blasphemy, for instance, and its passionate anticlericalism were authentically shocking within France's Catholic tradition, but resemble a charade when...
Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Julius Boros, Jack Burke Jr., Doug Ford. Their names are engraved on the winners' trophies of nearly 200 major golf tournaments. Together they have won four U.S. Open tournaments, nine P.G.A. Championships, six Masters and two British Open titles. They are enshrined in the Professional Golfers Association's Hall of Fame. Last week they added their names to a list of plaintiffs suing the P.G.A. Tour in state district court in Houston...
What they are mad about is a decision by the P.G.A.'s tournament policy board to narrow the lifetime unlimited exemption that traditionally spared all pre-1970 winners of the U.S. Open and P.G.A. Championship from having to qualify to enter tournaments.* Under the new rule announced last November and scheduled to take effect in 1979, that privilege is not automatic. Regardless of past glories, the old pros must earn an annual minimum (an average of $667 for each of the first 15 tournaments entered) or else be forced into the field of "rabbits" who spend the first...
...P.G.A. first changed the rules to open the ranks to younger players. Without limiting the exemption for past winners, it then decreed that future winners would be exempt only for ten years. But with 400 players competing for $10 million in prizes, some younger competitors were still dissatisfied...