Word: sponsorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another problem is sponsorship. "You need about $15,000 a year for expenses to play the tour," says Lee Elder, who finished 54th in the rankings last year with earnings of $31,690, "and it is rare for a Negro to have a sponsor." As a result, says Ray Botts, 32, who won only $3,431 last season, many young black golfers cannot afford to sharpen their game with consistent tournament play and "they get disillusioned very quickly." Some are reduced to hustling duffers, while others who stick it out often do so at the expense of their prime playing...
...students attach considerable priority to this center as a means of enriching the social and cultural experience of black Harvard students. Among the responsibilities envisioned for this center is the sponsorship of freshman "orientation week" activities for black students, supported and publicized by College authorities...
...high-speed trains have been financed under the $90 million High Speed Ground Transportation Act. It calls for joint Government-industry sponsorship of demonstration projects to see if high-speed service will help revive passenger trains and unsnarl highways and airways. It also aims to provide a model for similar rail service between such cities as Chicago and Detroit, Seattle and San Francisco...
Last week Whitten was in New York speaking with members of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF). He hoped UNICEF would take over full sponsorship of the volunteers for Nigeria-Biafra program...
Three leading gunmakers?Remington, Savage and Winchester?urged an end to mail-order sales of rifles and shotguns, proposed a permit system for gun owners and announced sponsorship of a long-range study of behavioral patterns in relation to the use of firearms. In San Francisco, 300 citizens voluntarily turned in weapons after an appeal from Mayor Joseph Alioto, who said that the city might "have them melted down and made into a sculpture honoring Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King." In Chicago, gun owners voluntarily delivered 100 weapons to police stations...