Word: badminton
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...Davis, and Ralph Jelic and why they couldn't be coaching Harvard and looking at the floor. He will wonder why Yovicsin couldn't be coaching another year while he (Restic) handled physical education. How much easier it is to worry about bowling shoes that don't fit and badminton rackets with broken strings...
Among the activities offered will be bowling, badminton, karate, scuba diving, skiing, skating, and the second half of a water safety instructor course...
...Paris, went to Peking to see one of his oldtime customers-Cambodia's exiled ruler, Prince Norodom Sihanouk. The prince, Sam wrote to France-Soir Columnist Carmen Tessier, "has a solid appetite. His aunt, a princess, simmers up little dishes. To keep in shape, he plays badminton with Princess Monique and his staff. He still composes songs, and during the Oct. 1 celebrations one could hear his latest work: Nostalgia for China, Which Everyone Knows...
...Jackson fortress wraps itself around a pool; it has walkways and plants growing all around; there is a basketball half court, badminton court, an archery range and, inside, a pool table in a sunken rec room and a den that looks like a cross between a motel lobby and the foyer of a Sunset Boulevard record company. The walls are plastered with platinum records (each signifying $2,000,000 in sales) and various other trophies the boys have picked up. For furniture, there is a bar, a stereo with big speakers and leatherette couches...
Officials, however, had no monopoly on insensibility. In Bhola, young Pakistanis in freshly laundered clothes played badminton only 30 minutes away by pedicab from areas where decomposing bodies lay rotting. Few Bengalis bothered to bury the "strangers" from other towns washed up on their beaches. In Patuakhali, British troops dug graves for the dead, while Pakistani soldiers lounged in their barracks...