Word: chess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University of Maine at Orono made a clean sweep of the first places at the New England Intercollegiate Chess Championships held at Harvard this weekend...
...tremendous game," Jacobs said yesterday. "Although I remained a pawn up throughout the game, my opponent activated his pieces and made a decisive incursion the thirtieth move." With a ranking of 2148, Jacobs was the highest rated player in the tournament which lacked many of the top Harvard chess stars. Cooper's rating was in the 1300's. "I had a premonition I was going to blunder," Jacobs said, "but I never thought I'd get beat this bad, especially by a B player...
...there for many years, called that feeling 'new guy optimism.' Every time a new guy gets shot down, he comes in and says the war is going to be over in six months." Charles and the others were permitted regular exercise periods, eventually received playing cards and chess sets. "They told us if there was anything we wanted, they would bring it in," Charles said. If isolation and mistreatment were part of the others' stories, Charles and his companions at least had some amenities. "I was able to keep up pretty well with what was happening...
...analyzed, their baggage searched by M.P.s and sniffed by dope-attuned dogs, and their bodies frisked before they are finally herded into Waiting Room A or Waiting Room B. There they sit restlessly on orange plastic chairs, staring at travel posters, talking little, some playing hearts, gin rummy or chess until flight time is finally announced...
...most successful gospel groups of the '50s and '60s. To purists who criticized their cabaret appearances-and their lavender limousine-Ward responded: "We're just traveling the highways and hedges for the Lord." -Died. LA. ("Al") Horowitz, 65, founder and former editor of Chess Review and three-time member of the U.S. chess championship team (1931, 1935, 1937); of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. A stockbroker who turned to chess to support himself during the Depression, Horowitz moved from coffeehouse matches to the rank of international master. Through his magazine, some 40 books...