Word: chess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Missing its six best players, the Harvard chess club nonetheless, battled a Princeton team to a tie in a four-board match at Princeton Sunday...
...naiveté?" he asked after discovering that one starlet was boasting about her dates with him. "I forget that they are actresses. They are only attracted to my power-but what happens when that power ends? They're not going to sit around and play chess with...
...pretend to speak for Bobby [because] Bobby and I disagree on politics," said Dr. Regina Pustan, mother of Chess Champion Bobby Fischer. As it happened, police in Washington, D.C., disagreed too. Dr. Pustan arrived at the White House with an Uncle Sam Halloween mask, a plastic pumpkin and sign declaring TRICK OR TREAT: UNCLE SAM SAYS SIGN ON THE DOTTED LINE. PEACE BY OCT. 31. Asked for her parade permit, she said, "This seems very peculiar. Do you need a permit to walk up and down with a sign?" Yes indeed, said a policeman as he put her under arrest...
...other things in Teddy's life include movies and chess. Teddy is so used to being in the center of the arena that he relishes the times when he can sit back and be the audience. "I like to see every new movie that comes out--even bad ones," he said. His favorites are "The Godfather" and "The Graduate." DeMars sees himself as having the same problems with his future that Dustin Hoffman has in "The Graduate"--he's unsure what...
...your article "The Team Behind Archie Bunker & Co." [Sept. 25], you state that Yorkin and Lear are eagerly dreaming up a good chess title for a movie...