Word: relax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AUGUSTA, Ga--The galleries at the Augusta National Golf Course, the site of the famed Masters Golf Tournament, do not really care that Tommy Aaron, the local Georgia favorite, won the tournament or that Jack Nicklaus finished two back or ten back. They came to relax in the warm April sun and beautiful flowered setting and watch a spectacle that just happened to be golf...
...also too early to relax at the golf course, but Britain's army commander in Northern Ireland, Lieut. General Sir Frank King, is not a man to let either a March drizzle or the threat of plentiful snipers interfere with his pastimes. Like all leading officials in Ulster, Sir Frank has to be constantly protected against the possibility of I.R.A. violence. Thus, he took two of his bodyguards along to the links. Being a properly frugal man, however, he persuaded them to act as his caddies...
However, an article in yesterday's Boston Globe reported that Caspar Weinberger, HEW Secretary, had indicated Wednesday that the Administration will relax the guidelines to permit, with "safeguards," the matching of private funds with Federal supplements...
...government, which had begun to relax some of the martial-law provisions, has tightened up once again. Two weeks ago, newspaper editors were ordered to stop covering the student protests. All did except George Athenassiades, editor and publisher of right-wing, independent Vradyni. The next day 20 tax investigators, accompanied by police, ransacked the Vradyni offices and Athenassiades' home, taking documents and papers. Police also entered the Hellenic-American Union building in Athens (which houses the U.S. Information Service Library) and roughed up a receptionist and several students suspected of being protesters...
Franco sighed. Problems, problems. No one ever seemed to have time to relax and be happy these days. Not like the '60s and '70s that Father liked to talk about. It was wonderful then, by all accounts...