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...players who filed into Chess City's smoke-filled second-floor loft on Manhattan's Upper West Side last week ranged in age from six to 50. With the persistent chutzpah of the true chess buff, each one figured he was the equal of a grand master; and each one plunked down $25 for the right to trade gambits with Boris Spassky, the former world champion. The simultaneous matches quickly turned into a boisterous chess happening. Six-year-old Robert le Donne bounced in toting his schoolbag; another player brought along a sustaining bottle of borsch; a third...
Primordial Broth. Enthusiasm is so high that "lifenatics" have taken to exchanging their discoveries in a quarterly newsletter, "Lifeline," published by Life Buff Robert T. Wainwright, a computer specialist in Wilton, Conn. Sample report: "I wanted to find a pattern that would blow up, a bomb that creates a spectacular explosion when the lit fuse burns down." Wainwright himself works hard in his spare time on extending the limits of Life. The paper he presented at this week's 1974 Winter Simulation Conference discussed how the game can imitate creation. Acting like molecules in the primordial broth...
...that businessmen most abhor is uncertainty. Yet as the U.S. economy lumbers out of one of its most profitable, troublesome and portentous years, uncertainty is the only word for the outlook. In trying to gauge prospects for 1974, most economists admit to playing a kind of blindman's buff. The biggest imponderable is the extent of the damage likely to result from the energy crisis, which is sure to bring something that economists have no experience charting: a slowdown caused not by lack of demand but by shortage of supply...
Osgood's sense of the incongruous has been heightened through a less than meteoric career. A radio buff since his Baltimore childhood, Osgood (full name: Charles Osgood Wood III) passed through Fordham University and the U.S. Army, spending as much time as possible inside announcing booths. A stint as general manager of the nation's first pay-TV station, WHCT in Hartford, Conn., kept him from a microphone for only a short time. The station lost money, and Osgood was out of a job. "I thought I was the world's greatest expert...
...happens, in Executive Action, like a low-grade, seedy shoot-'em-up. Dalton Trumbo's script is based on a story written in part by Mark Lane, the lawyer and assassination-conspiracy buff. Real names of persons and places are used except where they would be most crucial. The conspirators-Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer and John Anderson among them-are assigned fictional names, but only the vaguest identides. Ryan, the force behind the plot, is wealthy; Lancaster apparently is a maverick intelligence operative; Geer, an elderly man who has oil interests. Such sketchiness satisfies the requirements...