Word: badminton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manse of the Rev. Leslie A. Bechtel is modestly called the "Cottage." But Pastor Bechtel of the Presbyterian Kirk-in-the-Hills in suburban Bloomfield Hills, Mich, has three gardeners to take care of his 30 acres of grounds, including the nine-hole golf course and the badminton and tennis courts. The manse itself is furnished with such creature comforts as antique chairs valued at $1,000 each and a $10,000 Persian carpet. Under construction near by is a new church, modeled after Scotland's Melrose Abbey, that wilt have cost about $3½ million by the time...
...Birthday June 11, became 27 by the calendar. The day was spent quietly at Windsor Castle, where she enjoyed a walk with her children and a family luncheon. Later in the week, armed with her camera, the Queen joined Princess Margaret and a group of royal horse fanciers at Badminton, Gloucestershire, where they spent a day in the country watching the Olympic horse trials. A final note to the birthday week was gleaned by the London Daily Express from a French genealogical book and confirmed by a member of the College of Arms: on her mother's side...
...roaming, most trailer dwellers settle down in parks, pay rents of $20 a month and up. For their money, they get water, electricity, laundry, and telephone service, a small plot of land, bathroom facilities, and access, in some parks, to such recreation facilities as swimming, tennis, shuffleboard or badminton...
...home in Perlis made no difference. Explained Riam: "We are Moslems, and the Raja is allowed by our religion to take four wives." Nor did it make any difference that the Raja's first wife, the progressively minded Tengku Budriah, should be a Girl Scout commissioner, a badminton, hockey and tennis player, who believes in the emancipation of Moslem women. Moslem custom demanded that she keep a dutiful silence while, 400 yards from her palace, workmen put the finishing touches on a cozy little green house to be occupied by the beautiful Riam...
...Mike (M-G-M). Pat (Katharine Hepburn) is a lady athlete who excels at tennis, golf, baseball, basketball, skeetshooting, archery, swimming, track, boxing, ice hockey, badminton and judo. Mike (Spencer Tracy) is a pugnacious Broadway sports promoter who wears striped suits and dark shirts and hangs out at Lindy...