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...schools are also thrown open for family roller skating on Sunday afternoons (plastic skate wheels protect gymnasium floors). There are classes in bowling, bridge, badminton and ballroom dancing. The Mott approach is to use recreation as a lure to coax people into continued learning. "You bring people in for a little knitting class," explains Frank Manley, executive director of Mott Foundation projects. "Then you get a little serious sewing-then you build on that, and first thing you know you've got a terrific home economics course going." All the newer schools have a built-in "community room" open...
...other two weekend matches, the racquetmen whipped the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, 9-1, then bowed 7-3 to the Montreal Badminton and Squash Club on Sunday. The MBSC team won the U.S. Team Championships last year and is currently the best team in North America...
...side show, the Japanese were tending to business. Masashi Ouchi set a world record in weight lifting, hoisting a total of 1,003 lbs. to win the middleweight championship. Japan swept all 28 gold medals in swimming, dominated the track and field events, won first places in everything from badminton to bicycling. When the games finally ended, with a five-gun salute and the singing of Auld Lang Syne, the cool-headed Japanese had captured 218 gold, silver and bronze medals-167 more than their closest competitors...
Since the game has been accumulating technicalities for nine centuries, its rules are almost impossibly intricate. "I've been playing this game for about six years," Pell commented, "and I've never ever successfully explained it to anyone." There are elements of squash, badminton, and even horseshoes mixed into the sport. Fortunately, someone once adapted the game in a simpler court and devised simpler rules. The result was lawn tennis...
...philosophy has been carried over from fall co-ed soccer, touch football, swimming and sailing. On long winter evenings Harvard men will be able to join Cliffies in the Radcliffe gym for either badminton, volleyball or submersion in the pool...