Word: backgammoner
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Club Casablnea, 40 Brattle St., will sponsor a backgammon tournament at 6 p.m. Sunday in an effort to raise money for the New England Eye Bank. The first 64 persons to pay the $10 entry fee will be able to play...
...Bunny Collector Hugh Hefner's million-dollar hutch in Los Angeles, a hundred or so guests, including Warren Beany, Robert Culp and Peter Sellers had watched a screening of The Godfather beside the swimming pool. Some stayed on to play backgammon, sip their drinks and kibbitz. In another part of the pad, the action suddenly erupted into violence. Four intruders slipped through a gate in Hefner's electrified fence, bumped into a chauffeur and were challenged. Drawing knives, they attacked the chauffeur. When a guard saw the assault on a closed-circuit TV screen and rushed to help...
...Backgammon Book by Oswald Jacoby and John R. Crawford. Illustrated. 224 pages. Viking. $10. Though it is illustrated with the customary attractive leaves from medieval manuscripts and Flemish paintings, this is a no-nonsense text on one of the world's most ancient and alluring dice games. Instructions and diagrams are clear. There are good sections on probabilities and such popular variations of the game as acey-deucy and chouette. Still this is one gift book that will get off the coffee table and onto the gaming board...
...four captives played pool and backgammon with two Soviet majors and a female Armenian interpreter who were their constant companions. Often they were joined in the evening by two Soviet generals, who displayed a healthy curiosity about U.S. military affairs. On the last night of their captivity, after being driven to the Soviet border village of Akyaka, the two U.S. generals were held up for nine more hours while the Russians tried to get them to sign a protocol admitting that they crossed the border near Ani, implying that they had been snooping along the border. Finally Scherrer wrote...
...topped with such a sturdy mixture of sand, concrete, timber and steel rails ripped up from the trans-Sinai line that even accurate salvos send little more than tremors below. The Suez defenders, who call themselves "moles," pass the hours in the cramped forts cleaning their weapons and playing backgammon...