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JAPAN. The ancient Japanese ritual of chanoyu takes place in a little teahouse beside a stony brook rimmed with flowers. Guests learn how to kneel, bow, and savor the subtleties of the venerable ceremony while munching sweet cake and sipping bitter green...
Woodland Park authorities think that Bobo's trouble may arise from an overprotected childhood. He was brought up by a couple like a human baby. He slept in a ribboned bassinet, ate in a high chair, sat on a potty, played pat-a-cake, and wore little-boy suits. When he became too obstreperous and was sold to the zoo at the age of 2½, he was so miserable with his clothes off, and so afraid of the other animals, that his foster mother came and slept in a cot by his side every night for three weeks...
...fine day for the races, though most folks his age might prefer that old rocking chair, and so Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, who retired as a trainer last year, bustled off to New Jersey's Monmouth Park to hear the crowd roar "Happy Birthday" and share his 90th cake with 20 great-grandchildren. "It's a lucky thing I had the horse bug," confided the man who trained Gallant Fox and Omaha, Nashua and Bold Ruler, recalling the days when his mother-in-law wanted him to work as a streetcar conductor. "I was sending home more money from...
...Anyone who has threescore years and ten resents it," growled Edward, Duke of Windsor, vetoing cake and candles for his 70th birthday dinner at Maxim's. But somehow he seemed anything but resentful. At an 18th century costume ball for 600 given by Countess Sheila de Rochambeau at her chateau outside Paris, the duke in lace jabot and Royal Stewart tartan kilt danced the night away with his duchess, an enchantress ablaze in shimmering red cloak and white feathered wig designed by Yves St. Laurent...
...Birmingham, Cleveland and Provo, Utah, leaving behind a surfeit of $35,000 to $50,000 homes. Transferred to Pittsburgh, they now overflow the 41-story headquarters into four other downtown buildings. They have been brought together as part of the corporation's effort to slice through its layer cake of supervisors, consolidate its sprawling divisions and end the costly overlapping of its sales offices. The company has united many of its independent accounting and engineering offices in central headquarters, reduced the number of its regional sales offices from 53 to 28, and ordered all salesmen to sell its full...