Word: manor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...plant in Selb, but intends to keep his office in a converted factory building, where he can maintain its rumpus-room atmosphere and his collection of rejected porcelain models and toy monkeys. Intense and charming, Philip dresses like a tattered English country squire, lives in a manor house whose living room has a copper floor and a ceiling made of floor boards. He runs two miles home to lunch to keep in shape for mountain climbing. Says one baffled Rosenthal executive: "I guess he is really a British eccentric." Rosenthal s fourth wife Lavinia, a London socialite, is no less...
When Sweden's Count Bernadotte came to dinner one evening during one of the frequent remodelings of the Rosenthal manor. Lavinia set the table on a high scaffold. The guests sat precariously eight feet above the floor-eating, naturally, off Rosenthal china...
...spared no expense in building and furnishing his hotel. Jet-setters have been flocking there; its 100 beds are currently booked through mid-March (at $36 to $57). So are the other leading hotels, such as the Coral Reef Club and Sam Lord's Castle, a West Indies manor house carefully restored at a cost...
Healthy & Busy. There is plenty to play with. Like a laird of the manor, Webb has supplied his tenants with almost anything and everything they want to keep them on the go. If a sufficient number want to play boccie, Webb supplies an alley. There are potter's wheels for the potters, easels for the painters. In a proliferation of more than 90 clubs and organizations, Sun City oldsters bicycle and grow vegetables, take pictures, dance, do exercises, sing, sew. act, bowl, swim, and play almost every kind of game from canasta to chess...