Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gary Player won his third Masters on Sunday with a final round tour de force that shattered the serene ante-bellum atmosphere of the Augusta National Golf Club...
...birdie putt on 18 on Sunday, Player, whose demeanor is akin to that of the dour Scotch pros of old, erupted into a victory jig. He also punched the air in triumph. This is a common gesture nowadays, but before the 21-year-old Gary Player joined the U.S. tour in 1957, it had never been seen in America...
...Jordan, King Hussein hosted the group at his palace in central Amman. Back in Egypt a day later, the tour was welcomed by President Sadat to his home at Barrages outside Cairo. There the Egyptian leader was presented with the original cover portrait of himself as TIME's Man of the Year for 1977. Sadat warmly received the Americans and insisted that he was still buoyed by "the spirit of perseverance" in striving to achieve peace with Israel. He accused Prime Minister Begin of maintaining the old divisions between their two countries that he had tried to overcome when...
...Defense Minister, Ezer Weizman, is as well known to his countrymen for his wry wit as for his distinguished war record. Last week, before flying to Cairo for discussions with Egypt's President Sadat and War Minister Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gamassy, Weizman informally addressed a TIME news tour of businessmen and editors about his country's problems. Excerpts...
...That might not seem much, but together with a boost in February, it would bring steel increases to around 8% so far this year. The Carter Administration reacted with unusual vehemence. The President, jawboning at a press conference in Brasilia on his Latin American tour, charged that the rise "is excessive and does cause additional very serious inflationary pressure in our country." Vice President Walter Mondale and the Council on Wage and Price Stability (COWPS) also condemned the increase. Privately, some officials recalled with approval President Kennedy's crack about the genealogy of steelmen* and made sarcastic, and misleading...