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Hard-core U.S. sports buffs might scoff at the game of curling - that is, if they've even heard of it. Imagine grown men playing a sort of shuffleboard on ice, with brooms and a big rock. One man slides the rock down the ice and his teammates charge ahead of it, sweeping furiously as it approaches a series of concentric circles with a bull's-eye in the middle. Even the name sounds slightly nutty. Wasn't that something women did to their hair...
...developers' idea was that the old wanted a place in the sun, and large tracts of desert and seaside bloomed with the new "villages." The sign on the gate said, "No children, no dogs"; there were shuffleboard courts, hobby shops, a bingo game every evening, and to many an oldster, it seemed as close to heaven as they cared to get. But there were other oldsters who viewed with dismay the thought of living out their remaining years in a ghetto of the aged, however comfortable its appointments or however lush its garden plots. In stead of putting themselves...
...each afternoon there is a "cocktail hour" (milk, chocolate milk, fruit juices); on Wednesday evenings a "soirée" (plays put on by the children); the days are filled with horseback riding, shuffleboard, pingpong, and swimming in summer-part of the famous Noordwijk Beach is reserved for the hotel. Language barriers go down fast. A Swedish boy at Skansebo −one of Denmark's five children's hotels −learned fluent French and accentless Danish (very difficult for a Swede) on a single summer holiday...
...never thought I'd see the day when in a place 90 miles from the States, Commie guards would keep me from taking liberty." For TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers' firsthand report, see THE HEMISPHERE, Containment Shuffleboard...
...personnel know that they can be burned for publicly talking "politics," but privately they exercise their rights as U.S. citizens. Many are angry, frustrated and disillusioned, worried about "instant appeasement" and "going under painlessly." At one of the clubs on the base, they play a game bitterly called "containment shuffleboard-a game you don't try to win, but simply try to keep your opponent from scoring too high." As one sailor put it: "I'd like to think that one day we would have the guts to do something-but I doubt it." "It's hard...