Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pavilion ast week, they expected to see fireworks. It was the big show of 1949's basketball season, the N.C.A.A. tournament final beween powerful Kentucky and the aggravating, defense-minded Oklahoma Aggies. What the crowd saw was a duel in coaching strategy with overtones of a championship chess match. Kentucky, which specializes in brisk, aggressive basketball, deliberately slowed down to the Aggies' own "slow death" pace. So artis-ically didx Kentucky control the ball that 'or one twelve-minute stretch the Aggies 'ailed to score a single field goal. When Oklahoma's big center...
Emory Holt, an engineer officer in the merchant marine, had met and married pretty, dark-haired Norma Bew six years before. Emory liked chess and classical music; Norma liked men and gaiety. In the Manhattan camera company where she worked, she had met young and handsome David Whittaker. When Emory got back from one of his voyages, he found Norma changed. With a seagoing officer's methodical care, he noted her behavior in his "log"-when she came home nights (0230); her condition (drunk, smeared lipstick). He hired a private detective, whose reports confirmed his fears. He noted that...
Every week, U.S. hams casually talk to hams behind the Iron Curtain. Usually the topics discussed are politically innocuous: the weather, detailed descriptions of radio equipment, sometimes the moves in a chess or checker game. Even in presidential years, hams avoid politics. Their mutual passion for radio appears to level most cultural, racial, political and religious differences...
...negotiations rather than military action as the way to peace, the election results might put new life in the Jewish-Egyptian peace talks going on under U.N. auspices at Rhodes. Both sides were making minor concessions but holding fast to major positions. The atmosphere was that of "a comfortable chess game," but a Briton from the Foreign Office said that if his government should join the U.S. in putting on pressure for peace, a formula would pop up at Rhodes in short order...
...Ashby does not consider his first homeostat particularly intelligent, but he says he feels sure that a really bright model can be built on the same principle. "The method which would be used to enable it to play chess," he says confidently, "is now clear, though how long it will take to achieve this performance is uncertain...