Word: younger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...P.G.A. first changed the rules to open the ranks to younger players. Without limiting the exemption for past winners, it then decreed that future winners would be exempt only for ten years. But with 400 players competing for $10 million in prizes, some younger competitors were still dissatisfied...
Many top players are as strongly opposed to the rule change as are the oldtimers. Tom Watson, last year's Masters champion and No. 1 money winner, asserts: "There are certain players who cannot compete with the younger players, but I can't see rescinding the whole lifetime exemption because of those two or three guys. These people helped make the tour. There's no way you can take away their exemption after the fact. They won it, plain and simple, and it's theirs...
...play's portrayal of the present depresses, its vision of the future does not. At the end, we see the growing militancy of the younger generation of South African blacks, informed by American black writers like James Baldwin and by the anger produced by apartheid. As they move forward singing, there can be no doubt that the struggle that has begun will not end, as the actors in Survival put it, until South Africa's blacks have claimed their rightful share, their place...
Cornblit's playing style perfectly complements the short (7 points, v. 30-35 points in Spain) matches played for American bettors. With the emphasis on the killing shot in these truncated contests, Joey's fierce approach to the game is now imitated by younger players, Basque as well as American. He keeps in shape with a daily exercise regimen to relieve the strain of an old back injury and settles down twice a day for soothing sessions of Transcendental Meditation. The combination, he believes, should keep him at the top for another decade. To the dismay of opponents...
...intend to nail the killer, short of slitting his throat. As one of the cops explains, punishment must precede the trial since the judge will probably release "scum" like them. The older detective, Kelly (George Dzundza), is built like a bull elephant and when he talks he trumpets. The younger detective, Jack (Jeffrey De Munn), is a fanged snake who hisses and strikes...