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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...
...short, 66-year-old Pastor Bechtel enjoys what are probably the most lavish and luxurious Presbyterian surroundings in the world. This week, of his own free will, he turned his back on it all. and set out for a log cabin in the Wisconsin north woods, where he plans to spend the rest of his life...
Poker First. Many of Bechtel's parishioners in Detroit's ultra-fashionable suburb and some of his fellow ministers cannot understand why he is giving up so much for so little. Perhaps it is more surprising that he ever found himself in the Cottage in the first place...
...father owned and operated the best hotel and saloon in Butte, Mont., and Leslie Bechtel grew up there. "I think I could play poker before I could read or write." Bechtel went to school with copper miners' children who were sent down into the pits when they were 14. Growing up, he decided to be a lawyer and do something about such social injustice...
...teams: Commonwealth Edison and Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois; Dow Chemical and Detroit Edison; Monsanto Chemical and Union Electric; Pacific Gas & Electric and Bechtel Corp.; Pioneer Service & Engineering and Foster Wheeler...