Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administrators had turned off the air conditioning for the summer. On the steamy second floor of Bursley Hall, Mark Wellington, 30, pushed hundreds of miniature soldiers along carefully tape-measured distances in a table-top replay of an engagement on the eve of Waterloo. The rules of the intricate contest filled two sturdy binders, each about an inch thick. "It's based on what might have happened if Napoleon had pursued Wellington an hour earlier than he did," said Mark. "We're replaying it under two sets of weather circumstances. In one case, the British have held...
Down in the lobby, Kim Gillette, 25, another member of the tiny female contingent, recounted a fantasy game she had just left. "The plants had a death spread on them. But I was killed just before that." The game, Gamma World, is a futuristic (postnuclear holocaust) contest in which participants adopt the characteristics and hostilities of humans and aliens. "It's a lot more exciting than Monopoly," the player explained brightly. "No dragon's ever going to jump on you in Monopoly...
After steering his newspaper into the ranks of the nation's best, Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler revved up for a different kind of contest: the Six Hours of Endurance race at Watkins Glen, N.Y. Making his professional track debut, Chandler, 50, drove his own Porsche Turbo 935. "I had done some amateur racing, but I had never gone toe to toe with the world's greatest drivers," says Chandler. "It was much more than I had bargained for." Even so, the press lord is now feeling like a king of the pit: "I guess I kind...
...built a strong bond with the group backing primaries, helped to coax a "compromise" through the Democratic National Committee that favors the pro-Carter faction and im proves the prospects for a primary. Should Carter face a challenge from another Democrat in 1980, he would benefit from an early contest in a friendly setting...
Play was brutal in the opening five minutes, and it remained so throughout the epic 120-minute battle. Kempes and star Dutch midfielder Jan Neeskens were both bloodied by the end of the contest. Referee Sergio Gonella never got a grip on the game, as he not only let rough play go unfettered, but also played to the partisan home crowd with numerous pro-Argentina calls...