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...students who wish to meet for religious purposes the same rights as students who gather for other reasons. Says Californian John Stoos, a regional director of the American Life Lobby: "It's surprising that we had to grovel for the same rights already given to Communists, Nazis and chess clubs...
...Weight Lifter-Psychologist Harry Sneider at Ambassador College in Pasadena, Calif., home base for the worldwide Church of God. They do more than just prepare for a competition, they foretell it, envision it and rehearse it, complete with sound effects. "It's like playing a whole game of chess in your mind," says Sneider, who used to wipe the brow of Chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer before matches. Mystically, Stones says, "some things about jumping came to me recently in training sessions, things that were apparently so obvious I missed them. I don't know why they came...
...public-domain software is amateurish or trivial-for example, programs that imitate birdcalls or beep out the William Tell Overture. But there are free, first-rate programs that enable machines to edit documents or keep electronic ledger books for home businesses. Software abounds for such games as chess and blackjack. One program called A.T.C. simulates the challenge of being an air-traffic controller...
...interacting with the sculptures are not only encouraged, but are unstoppable. Children sit in their bronze laps; on chilly nights adults drape sweaters over their shoulders. In the Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex, in Trenton, N. J., hundreds of passers-by have sat in the empty seat across the chess table from the bronze figure of a perplexed loser to have their picture taken. In southeast Washington, neighborhood youths have adopted the hot-rodding Skateboarder as one of their own. Says John Harrod, executive director of the Market 5 Gallery, a performing arts center that stands near by: "The kids...
...seems, is caught in a looking-glass war. Covert operations become overt, rebels in one country get aid so that rebels in another get squeezed. Liberals look at El Salvador and see Viet Nam, while conservatives look at the map and see pawns in a game of Great Power chess. In the din of charge and countercharge, moral and practical issues sometimes become tangled and blurred. Here are answers to some basic questions...