Word: pocono
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suddenly finding his putting touch and scoring five birdies on the last six holes, Art Wall Jr., saturnine, 35-year-old golf pro from Pocono Manor, Pa. who has been the hottest golfer on the early spring circuit, came from nowhere in the final round of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. He overhauled the leaders with a six-under-par final round of 66. Arnold Palmer, last year's Masters champion, who tied for the lead with Canada's Stan Leonard at the end of the third round, triple-bogied the treacherous twelfth hole, narrowly missed...
...Athletic Director enumerated several reasons behind these moves. "First of all," he said, "we feel that Yovicsin needs some time to himself to perfect his slot-T attack. The understanding is that he will spend the year in the Pocono mountains where he'll study and perhaps play a little golf in his spare moments...
...mountaintop in Pennsylvania's green Pocono range, 85 miles from Manhattan's garment district, sprawls a 700-acre resort named Unity House, where garment workers can enjoy vacation comforts at proletarian prices. There, last week, gathered two dozen members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Executive Council, finding time between business sessions for golf, gin rummy and fishing in the resort's three-mile-long lake. But for all the resort pleasures, the labor leaders wore solemn faces. They had come to discuss the state of U.S. organized labor as Labor Day 1958 approached-and there...
...winding Pocono mountain road, past the guardhouse outside the 800-acre estate, along the driveway lined with spreading sycamores, skirting the garden with its orange zinnias and lavender petunias, purred the Cadillacs and Chryslers of organized labor's leaders. The executive council of the combined A.F.L.-C.I.O. met last week at "Unity House," the $5,000,000 Pennsylvania summer resort of David Dubinsky's garment workers' union, to answer an important political question: Should the A.F.L.-C.I.O. officially endorse a presidential candidate this year...
...worst single disaster struck Stroudsburg, Pa., in the Pocono Mountains, where the usually gentle Brodhead Creek rose 30 terrifying feet in 15 minutes, left more than 50 dead. At Camp Davis, a religious retreat, 31 of 40-odd campers, nearly all of them women and children, were dead or missing. Mrs. Jennie Johnson, a survivor, described...