Word: briarcliff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manursing Island and New Canaan's Country Club like paddle tennis because, though the courts cost $5,000 apiece, they are cheap to maintain and keep the club open year-round. Individuals build courts too: Philip Morris President Joseph Cullman III, for example, has two courts on his Briarcliff Manor estate, normally entertains a dozen paddle-playing guests each weekend throughout the winter. All told, the American Platform Tennis Association estimates, there are some 500 courts in the U.S., and enthusiasts will go to great lengths to get to one. Last year Caroline Nelson, current A.P.T.A. women...
...large proportion find their girl friends at Bradford, Briarcliff, and other out - of - the - way places that abound in young ladies from good families. Club members often have two girls--one they love and one they lost for -- and whoring is still practiced by members of many clubs. "There's a woman you have a sexual attraction for and another you don't think of that way," Birge said. "But she speaks well, is pretty, and plays the harpsichord...
...Rapoport, 54, of the University of Michigan, a leading organizer of teach-ins. Shrugging off the Red infiltrators in Santo Domingo, a Stanford professor of Latin American history allows: "You can find 58 Communists in New York, or San Francisco, or anywhere." Political Scientist Stanley Millet, 48, formerly of Briarcliff College, goes so far as to argue that "terror on our side accounts for all that has happened in Viet...
Some standout scholars: > Jill Ramsey of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., scored two perfect 800s and a 795 on her college boards, may major in anthropology or Spanish at Stanford. Last year as a summer project, she helped to build a clavichord...
...association's new lessened militancy has caused speculation that it might consider a merger with either the ecumenical-minded National Council of Churches, to its left, or the fundamentalist American Council of Churches, to its right. President Robert A. Cook, of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., put a quick stop to such talk. "The National Association of Evangelicals," he said, "does not propose to take either the course of accommodation, represented by the ecumenical movement, or the course of reaction, represented by the neofundamentalist movement. Both positions are too far on the extremes...