Word: outdoors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...golfer faces horrendous frustrations: long queues at public courses; the expense of private clubs; capricious weather that can rain him out or sun him to a cinder before the ninth hole. One way to beat all these hazards is to forget that the Scots intended golf to be an outdoor game. Then the player can use one of the dozens of indoor ranges that employ computers and color slides to give customers the illusion that they are playing real golf on a famous course...
Golf-O-Rama's owner, Norman Schaut, 40, is convinced that the electronic golf course will become more than a foul-weather substitute for the real thing. Golf's popularity continues to grow, and land scarcity makes construction of new outdoor courses difficult in many areas. Already Schaut has noticed a number of regular customers, including one who brings in a different opponent every time he arrives. One day this regular confided to Schaut that "it's as easy to lose your shirt in here as it is outdoors." He may be the world's first...
...thinclads open their outdoor season this afternoon at Soldiers Field against Princeton, in what will turn out to be a major test of Coach Bill McCurdy's rebuilding efforts in the sprints and field events...
...Club 47 was the place to go in Cambridge seven or eight years ago. You'd walk down those outdoor iron stairs at 47 Palmer Street into a dingy cave that held about 50 people you couldn't see. You'd pay your quarter or half-buck, and Tom Rush '64 would be sitting there, growling away...
After the races at Mammoth, Steels and Carter reported that 27 people plus a dog were thrown into a jacuzzi, an outdoor steaming hot whirlpool bath, and four and a half cases of beer had gone down various hatches, and, Carter jeered, "Some of the girls got pissed as hell when nobody gave them time to take off their Bogner stretchsuits...