Word: tente
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...rain never falls and the sun never blinds and the wind never blows. It is more than a dream in Litchfield, Conn., where the Forman School recently unveiled its synthetic solution to the problem-a tennis court surfaced with grass made of vinyl and sheltered by a nylon tent...
Looking like a strange translucent bubble, the nylon dome is kept aloft by a pair of 1½-h.p. fans, is big enough (120 ft. long, 33 ft. high) for all but the most enthusiastic lob shots. Adapted from a design for use in housing radar-antenna installations, the tent was built by Birdair Structures Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y., can be rigged and inflated in several hours, packs away when not in use into a space just about the size of a pingpong table...
...Hayworth, 44, finds it a lot rougher on the set of Circus World, where she is playing a sawdust star on the skids. The cast has already survived a boat's capsizing in Barcelona, a flood while on location in Toledo, and is getting ready for the big tent-fire scene at Madrid's Retire Park. So she heads for the Club de Campo with her 18-19 handicap to bash the pill around when she gets to relax. The flaming red hair is strawberry-blonde now, and her film role casts her as the mother of Claudia...
...spent four summers on archaeological expeditions run by the Universities of Toronto and Colorado and the Museum of New Mexico. Her recent trip to Turkey seemed luxurious to her after some earlier trips: "I didn't have to poach eggs for 20 people or sleep in a tent." What is the appeal of archaeology to an amateur? Finding skeletons and pots, yes. But, adds Miss Chase, after being winterbound in Manhattan, "It's so nice to sit in the sunshine and scrape the earth with a trowel...
...almost always friendly, usually too friendly. He has his people prepare a tremendous feast, just as Abraham killed a calf for his guests. You sit around the fire, stuffed with food and talking endlessly. Then you are taken to the guest tent and covered against the cold with the tribe's best blankets. Your hosts mean well, but the food is sometimes odd-sheep's eyes are something I never got used to. And the blankets are full of bedbugs. A guest of the Bedouins always gets covered with bites...