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Saturday, May 6 HOUSTON CHAMPIONS INTERNATIONAL (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Pros and amateurs from Belgium to Japan join top U.S. golfers (defending champion: Arnold Palmer) in this $100,000 tournament at Houston's Champions Golf Course. Continued Sunday afternoon...
...easier by the certain knowledge that even as they tarried, Richard Nixon was indefatigably lining up convention delegates. Rockefeller's stern analysis, in fact, was sharply underscored by a Gallup poll of nearly three-fifths of the G.O.P. county chairmen, showing that a large majority of the local pros, most of them conservative in temper, believe that Nixon will be the next Republican candidate...
...former State Director of Finance, Hale Champion, who is now a fellow of the Kennedy Institute, stress the effectiveness of Reagan's "totally managed campaign." They predict that image building through the mass media will catch on nationally, and they worry about what this will mean to other political pros who may have neither youthful looks nor sex appeal. "The trouble with Spencer-Roberts," Brown told WHRB interviewers "is that after they tell you what people think, you have to say what people think." Always a party loyalist, Brown insists that Democratic candidates won't be tempted by the likes...
...country where party identification is far less important than it once was, Brown is a strange bird. His unflinching loyalty to a Democratic Party he cannot control, and his inability to "understand" the electorate may mean bad days ahead for the old-time political pros. If elections continue to be wide-open, if voters continue to demand new faces and refuse to face the realities of this unlovely urban world, what happened to Brown may happen to other established politicians. California is not the weird anomaly the rest of the country considers it. As the Beach Boys, those insightful amateur...
...P.G.A.'s problems is that many good private clubs refuse to sponsor tournaments; they do not want the trouble, the expense-or strangers trampling their fairways. Another problem is pressure from the P.G.A.'s own members, particularly the less talented playing pros who want courses made easier to improve their chances of beating a Jack Nicklaus or an Arnold Palmer. "Easy courses are great levelers," explains famed Architect Robert Trent Jones, who has built or remodeled 350 courses around the world. "They are putters' courses. A really good golfer like Nicklaus or Palmer wins on good courses...