Word: puerta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finished fifth the first time he played in the Spanish international Junior Championship after being bedridden with hepatitis. In 1973 he came in second in the same event, which was held at the Real Club de las Puerta Hierro, the name adopted by the Madrid Polo golf club when it moved...
...Puerta Hierro is the permanent venue for the Madrid Open, which is a regular event on the British PGA tour. In 1974, Vik qualified for the Madrid Open and played in a field that included Tony Jackson and Peter Oosterhuis before missing the 36-hold cut by a stroke. Puerta Hierro also hosted the World Amateur Team Championship in 1970, in which Vik played this fall...
...most responsible for popularizing golf in Spain are the Miguel Brothers and Ramon Sota. Both of the miguel brothers, Angel and Sebastian, learned the game as caddies at Puerta Hierro. Angel finished fourth in the 1957 British Open and the next year he beat Christy O'Conner in a sudden death playoff to win the World Cup individual title...
...devaluation could also do harm in Mexico. Prices of the $6.6 billion worth of consumer and capital goods that Mexico imports will rise sharply in peso terms. In the wake of Beteta's announcement, many sales clerks worked until midnight changing the price tags on merchandise. At the Puerta de Liverpool department store, for example, refrigerators went up 20% overnight, color TV sets more than 30%. To ease the burden, Echeverría has already promised raises for workers, civil servants and pensioners-a generous but inflationary move...