Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Westerners seem inclined to believe that communism with its platform of land reform and intensive mobilization of manpower for industrialization is the most effective approach to economic growth for underdeveloped countries. But I must call their attention to the fact that most of the Asian people are aspiring to political freedom as well as seeking economic development. They are striving to modernize their traditional societies on their own terms. They have become wary of the costly and unhappy results that some Asian countries have had to suffer from the rigorous but ineffective execution of economic programs under the strict...
...director of the Catholic publishing house, Sheed & Ward Ltd. Brian Wicker, 37, a lecturer in English literature at Birmingham University, writes for the Guardian. Terence Eagleton, 24, an editor of the New Left periodical Slant, is a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. All these writers found a platform for their views in New Blackfriars, and their writings are beginning to circulate in the U.S. This month the University of Notre Dame Press is publishing Wicker's Toward a Contemporary Christianity...
...Maryland's Chevy Chase Club last week, groundkeepers with shovels and brooms were clearing off a 6-in. snowfall from the club's seven raised-platform courts in time for the annual mixed-doubles "scramble." At Darien, Conn.'s Wee Burn Country Club, 3½ in. of drifting snow was being pushed off the courts in preparation for the national championships. And at Brookline, Mass., The Country Club was rushing to completion the first two platform-tennis courts in the club's long history. All this activity must be over and done with before winter ends...
Scored like tennis, the game takes place on a wooden platform 60 ft. long and 30 ft. wide surrounded by chicken-wire walls, off which the ball can be played, as in squash. Players wield short-handled wooden paddles, get only one serve for each point. The heavy sponge-rubber ball, colored orange so that it shows up against snowy backgrounds, is extremely lively, with the result that sharply angled shots become as important as sheer power. Favorite ploys include the deep lob that forces the opponent away from the net and a low, sinking squash shot that slides...
...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's-doubles champion, moved from Scarsdale, where she played regularly at the Fox Meadow Tennis Club, to Bryn Mawr...