Word: chess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frederick Raphael, who co-authored the script, throught up the film's most striking flourish. Its scene is not the expected lavish suite, but a steam-bath replete with floating tea-trays and chess-games. It's a crude American vulgarization, inspired no doubt by the array of gadgetry available to backyard swimming pool aficianados, but it works wonderfully to spark dialogue-dulled attentions back onto the screen. There are little self-parodies of the film's seriousness like this throughout, and while they work to keep your attention they only attest to a certain amount of disinterestedness...
Last day to sign up for group tennis lessons is today. Last day to sign up for the Chess Tournament is Wednesday, July 10, by noon. Sign up for both in the dean of students office, Lehman Hall. People who have already signed up for these tournaments please call 495-2945. This is urgent...
Rubins, who graduated from the Law School in June, is in charge of all the activities that have earned the Summer School the occasional nickname of Harvard Summer Camp. He plans an elaborate series of University sponsored activities and social events--movies, mixers, bridge and chess tournaments and teas are among them--that usually go on under different auspices during the academic year...
...year Rubins was Crooks's assistant for cultural affairs, and this year Crooks recreated the then-defunct deanship and put Rubins in the post. Asked what his job entails, Rubins replies, "Let's see, what's on my desk right now? I'm going over the rules for the chess and bridge tournaments. I'm looking at a list of proctors, and working on publicity for the animation course. There's some material on our arts contests here too. Everything here that's not involved with courses is our responsibility--it goes from the most mundane things to giving students...
Multimillionaire James Derrick Slater, co-founder of the London investment banking firm Slater, Walker Securities Ltd., credits his hobby-chess-with making him Britain's king of mergers. Analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of companies all over the world, Slater would then acquire some of them through quick, strategic stock purchases. Though he built Slater, Walker into a financial holding company that last year (the latest estimate) had a market value of some $360 million, he remained largely unknown to the public until he put up $125,000 in prize money to lure Bobby Fischer to Iceland to compete...