Word: chess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alone should prevail. The medical school, I would think, is one such area. The training of physicists and, I would argue, scholars of all sorts are other examples. There is simply no way of introducing "representative" character in areas where talent is essential, such as writing novels or playing chess. It may come to pass that most of the novelists are black and most of the chess-players Jews. So be it. One cannot legislate talent, nor should we try to--one simply doesn't set obstacles in talent's way though one can go beyond that to search...
Fencing or chess may be fit sports for adversaries, but certainly not golf. Who wants to stride down a fairway next to someone with whom one is arguing about Viet Nam? Neither Bill Rogers nor Bill Fulbright. Close friends and frequent golf partners until 1969, they drifted apart when Rogers was named Secretary of State. The two continued to play once in a while, but the antiwar chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee seemed less intent on the game than on the debate. For his part, Rogers refused more and more often to testify before Fulbright's committee...
SUNDAY: Columbo. Laurence Harvey as the world chess champion has a fool-proof gambit for retaining his title against his challenger: bump him off. Detective Joe Columbo (Peter Falk) oversees "The Most Dangerous Match." CH. 4. 8:30 p.m. Color...
...watching it towards the end," Tony DeFranco, treasurer of the Harvard Chess Club, said yesterday. "And it would have taken a Bobby Fisher to win that...
...tournament was Harvard's first to be sanctioned by the United States Chess Federation. DeFranco termed it a success, although Jacobs commented that the small prizes--$50 for individual and team firsts--kept many of the highest ranking players in the area out of the field of 43. Unlike the chess club's tournament last year, the field for this tournament was limited to student members of the USCF...