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...newest and most sophisticated of these fantasy parlors is Golf-O-Rama, in Bedford Hills, N.Y. For $3.75 on weekdays and $5.25 on weekends, a golfer can pretend that he is playing 18 holes on one of five courses (Oahu, Thunderbird, Pebble Beach, Firestone, the Dunes). The illusion of actual play is achieved by projecting an image of the selected fairway on a 9-ft. by 9-ft. screen inside a large booth. When the player drives his ball against this screen, a computer measures its speed and direction, makes adjustments for hooks or slices, and controls the movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Golf by Illusion | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...hard sell worked. Within four years, Davidson, with only 1,000 students, became a big, nationally ranked powerhouse. In 1969, after the Wildcats finished No. 3 in the U.S., grateful Davidson alumni presented Driesell with a new Thunderbird. A few weeks later he drove off to College Park, Md., and a new $25,000-a-year coaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hardwood Huckster | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...from Columbia on the seventeenth hole--seven cases of Hamm's Beer his DKI sweatshirt, a wrinkled and somewhat threadbare plain jacket from J. Press York Street. New Haven, and one very blonde Midwestern girl--all of it went into a creaking and rather obscene '64 Thunderbird, the same one he had tried unsuccessfully to unload on this ensign from Harvard when he was in the Navy. It had become a ritual even down to the blank check he folded twice and tucked into his wallet just before heading East on interstate 90 Champagne Chuck Yale 69 was going back...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Power of the Press | 11/25/1972 | See Source »

...Club 47 is the Passim coffeehouse and Passim has been providing a steady stream of folk talent for Cambridge audiences since its inception. Last week, a young man named Townes Van Zandt entertained there, evoking memories of the young Dylan with tunes such as "Talking Thunderbird Blues". And there are currently indications of musical rejuvenation on other fronts as well...

Author: By Charles Allan, | Title: Blues in a Bottle | 3/9/1972 | See Source »

...school washrooms guarded by black toughs Detroit's Martin Luther King High School has a modern building, but the school is an island in the middle of a rotting ghetto. Heroin is openly dispensed from a "shooting gallery" a block away: drunks loll on the sidewalks, bottles of Thunderbird wine still in their hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Agonny of Busing Moves North | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

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