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...dotes on Balzac novels, Turkish coffee and the color orange (he even has his watering cans painted that color), who hauls out pictures of his young son as fast as any bourgeois dad, warbles a passable tenor, and plays a sharp game of gorodki (a Russian mixture of shuffleboard and ninepins). Budu's Stalin is more human than the headlines he makes, but he is no more lovable than any other python in repose...
Instead of roaming, most trailer dwellers settle down in parks, pay rents of $20 a month and up. For their money, they get water, electricity, laundry, and telephone service, a small plot of land, bathroom facilities, and access, in some parks, to such recreation facilities as swimming, tennis, shuffleboard or badminton...
Curling, a peculiar sport that had its beginnings in Scotland around 1500, is a winter version of the English game of bowling on the green. It also has shuffleboard overtones. Last week, for the first time, curling's native Scotland was invaded by a group of curlers from the U.S., where there are an estimated 4,000 confirmed addicts concentrated mainly in enthusiastic clubs around New England and the upper Middle West...
...Seconds pulses with the same eerie beat as Poe's Tell-Tale Heart. Its hero is a brilliant young British scholar who has pushed himself into a shaky state of nerves, and taken ship for an American teaching post. At first, John Divine relaxes. During a session of shuffleboard in a heavy sea, Divine's eye roves toward the scuppers and the slit of open space under the lifeboats. In that instant, he sees "a billowing of pink goods" slither over the side, and for "half an awful wink that pinkness seemed ... to have folds like legs...
...month period ending in May, 580 regular movie theaters closed down. But open-air drive-ins, offering such tempting summertime extras as car washing, shuffleboard courts and miniature zoos, are enjoying their greatest boom...