Word: racqueters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reader does not get far into this book before beginning to suspect that it is a put-on. Who ever heard of the long-nosed bandicoot? Or the brolgas, which break into a wild, wing-flapping dance at the sound of a bell? How about the racquet-tailed drongo, and the mudskipper, a hippopotamus-shaped fish that likes to skitter across mud flats and climb mangrove roots? Or the mallee fowl, which assiduously builds an incubator for its eggs and keeps the temperature inside at a steady 95°, come rain or shine? Curious specimens these, but Naturalist Gerald Durrell...
...another New Orleans debutante every Sunday from now through Mardi gras. "I think people got tired of cocktail parties," says Mrs. Max M. Green, who gave a deb brunch at the New Orleans Country Club last week. In Chicago, when ever the Bears play at home, members of the Racquet Club gather for a brunch of Bloody Marys, eggs Benedict, codfish cakes and popovers, before bussing out to the football game. In San Francisco, Trader Vic's restaurant has made a tradition out of the annual brunch before the Giants' opening game...
Harvard freshman Anil Nayar is the national squash champion of India and the junior champion of the British Commonwealth, but he will not swing his racquet for the Crimson this year...
Throughout Europe and Asia squash is played with a slower ball and a lighter racquet than in America. As a result more speed and endurance are required than in the American game...
Penn's victory undoubtedly will be a lift for Eastern racquet coaches in general, who have been plagued by Harvard coach Jack Barnaby's "good luck charm." In the past several years, Barnaby has won an amazing number of "cliff-hangers" in tennis and squash...