Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...letter to the New York Times last month, three antiwar clergymen, Lutheran Minister Richard J. Neuhaus, Jesuit Father Daniel V. Kilfoyle and Rabbi Lloyd Tennenbaum, contended that "far from aiding institutionalized religion, the total exemption of clergy does American religion a great disservice." This month, Harvard Divinity School will sponsor a two-day seminar on the issue...
...member of the Harvard Republican Club Executive Committee, I think a few things should be made clear regarding the Sing Out appearance. The Republican Club helped sponsor this group because Sing Out has a right to express itself on this campus, and Harvard students have a right to hear that expression if they so choose. We will sponsor the expression of controversial views in the future, not because we necessarily endorse those views, but because it is our obligation to encourage free expression...
...some interesting facts have come to light. The involvement of the Schick Safety Razor Co. in MRA is extensive. Schick is owned by Patrick J. Frawley Jr., a well-known right-winger. Last June Schick sponsored a one-hour television broadcast of Up with People that saturated the country. It was shown in 32 cities, sometimes for five or six consecutive nights, at a cost of $300,000. CBS refused to sponsor the MRA-Frawley extravaganza because "it contravened the network's policy of not accepting entertainment ventures that contain an editorial or ideological point of view" (New York Times...
Dalton backed him up, but he admitted later, "We really knew nothing about MRA. We were pretty much opposed to it, but we didn't want to make a fuss about it." Dalton also claimed that Heikki had told him that the Young Republicans had agreed to sponsor the Sing-Out, and YD members knew at the time that no such decision was made. The Young Dems said they would not sponsor MRA without the YR's in on it too. Dalton laid down more stipulations, about publicity and about songs. MRA was not to say that...