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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...
...many ways David Hartman, 25, would be a casting director's perfect choice for the role of a medical student. A second-year man at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, he is a handsome, Nordic-looking blond who swims to keep in shape and enjoys chess. He is married to his college sweetheart Sheryl, and for the past seven summers he has been in charge of sports and physical education at a camp for retarded children...
...Romping. Lester's film has all this and more-sophisticated satire, opulent costumes, crashing swordplay, and a feast of historical fact-noblemen sniff clove-studded oranges as they walk through grimily Hogarthian streets; the King plays chess on a lawn-drawn board, with the palace dogs his four-footed chess pieces. Within this lovingly recreated world, Lester's musketeers are off and romping through an audacious barrage of pratfalls, sight gags, tottering demises and improbable acrobatics reminiscent of silent comedies...