Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remark is no idle comment−Player does not talk casually about his abilities−nor is he boasting. He is simply expressing the rock-solid self-confidence that has sustained him through 22 remarkable years on the tour and brought him 114 victories. This season may turn out to be the best of all. He is, to begin with, 42 years old, an age when most great golfers are faltering, if they have not already collapsed. At 42, Arnold Palmer, for example, won no tournaments on the circuit and fell from third to 25th in earnings. But despite...
...this year, Player has earned more than $130,000 on the U.S. tour, raised his lifetime earnings to nearly $1.5 million and reaffirmed his long-held conviction, expressed frankly to anyone who asked, that he was the greatest golfer in the world. True, Jack Nicklaus has won more of the sport's major prizes than Player, 14 to 9, but the South African looks at the situation differently. He argues, correctly, that no other competitor has done so well in so many big tournaments around the world, coping with jet lag, strange surroundings and quirky greens. Player...
Baqwa, in the U.S. for a three-month speaking tour, was forced to leave South Africa when the black consciousness movement was banned in October...
Every Thursday afternoon I give Crimson Key tours of Harvard Yard to incoming or prospective freshmen. This past week was pre-freshmen week, so all those on the tour knew they were "in," and only had to make that pseudo-decision between Harvard, Yale and Princeton...
Upon ending the tour, I felt that I might have been a little too dogmatic in my talk of the anti-apartheid struggle. I saw apprehension in the faces of some of these pre-freshmen and their parents. I concluded my tour by telling them the following: I hope that what I told you of the student struggle has not completely distorted your ideas about whether Harvard is the right place for you. Most students with whom I have contact are very happy that they are at Harvard. I am too. But there are a number of aspects of Harvard...