Word: skeet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Porsche, play golf, fish for marlin. He keeps a summer home in East Hampton, L.I., a Manhattan apartment, a house near some of his Cuban plants, a Havana apartment and a 215-year-old hacienda in Pinar del Rio province. His weekend place outside Havana boasts an airstrip, boathouse, skeet and trap layout, swimming pool, bar, guest cottages, servants' houses. The place is called "Yemaya," an Afro-Cuban voodoo word for virgin; Hedges likes the name so well that he also gave it to his 34-ft. yacht...
...usually begins with a large breakfast in the dining room, followed by a dip in the specially heated pool or a trip to the skeet range. If any practices are held, they are an hour long, and all facilities such as skate sharpening, extra equipment, and the like are supplied by the management...
...Chicago's shotgun-toting Mrs. Carola Mandel added up her year's bag of clay birds on both skeet and trap ranges, discovered that she is the first woman ever to whip all competitors, male and female, in competitive averages. Mrs. Mandel's scattergun accounted for three world records, including an average of 99.6 for 1,000 targets...
...rich, Marx has a "Space Satellite Launcher" ($3) that propels the plastic satellite skyward by a hand-crank mechanism; Irwin Corp. a "Skeet Shoot" ($4) that throws targets into the air, for a rifle loaded with darts; and Carrom Industries, a boxing game ($6.95) in which players manipulate toy fighters until the knockout. Of the traditional dolls, stuffed animals, soldiers, and games, there are hundreds of new variations. Madame Alexander has a new doll, "Lissy" ($10 to $15.95), that walks, sits and kneels; the Bonomi Italian dolls ($17.98 to $24.98) feature straight Audrey Hepburn haircuts, come equipped with skating...
...Carola Mandel, Cuba-born beauty and wife of a Chicago department-store executive, broke 300 straight targets to beat three other top women and 14 men in the annual Rebel Open Skeet Shoot all-gauge championship at Jackson, Miss., went on to establish a new women's world record of 387 birds...