Word: chess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year's freshman has a passionate interest in music--although only 11 plan to major in that subject. He plays everything from bagpipes to xylophone. He'd rather join a political organization than a religious organization, and he prefers chess to bridge. He likes good literature and would like to try his hand at writing...
Last week Zensei was ready to concede defeat. Some brothelkeepers decided to go legal by converting their establishments to "tea parlors" and "grilled chicken restaurants." One Tokyo group announced plans to replace its old row of houses with a $280,000 "amusement center" containing "game parlors" and "chess rooms." Zensei's Tokyo branch notified the city government that all girls would be fired in the next two months and helped to get other jobs. Said a surprised official: "This time they really seem to mean...
...election day Typhoon Kit howled across the northern Philippines, flooding villages, blocking roads, making thousands homeless. That night, sallow little President Carlos Garcia. 61, sat in a friend's home outside Manila, listening to the election returns and playing game after game of chess with an aide. When the radio reported that both the Liberals' Jose Yulo and the Progressives' Manuel Manahan were running ahead of him in Manila, Garcia played so badly that the aide won. But as the counting went on, the President's chess got better. By the next afternoon the typhoon that...
...high-school days in Budapest, Teller was, as he puts it today, a "square" (pronounced, in his thick accent, "skvare"). Favorite amusements were chess, hiking, poetry and music. Among the subjects of his poems was a chum's brainy, grey-eyed younger sister, Mici (pronounced Mitzi), who shared young Teller's enthusiasm for mathematics and that special Hungarian passion, pingpong. Eventually they were married...
Discovery of Faith. Helmut Thielicke began to study theology as a kind of academic chess. Theology appealed to him chiefly as the most scholarly study he could think of. "I suppose you wish to become a minister," said an examiner when Thielicke told him that theology was his projected major. "If possible," he replied, "I should like to avoid that...