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...country's TV screens four years ago, the "other" game of football throws fewer and fewer people for a loss. A monthly magazine called Touchdown counts 160,000 readers, and one Briton in every ten saw the Bears in this year's Super Bowl. It's not cricket, of course, but football seems certain to gain even more ground this August, when the Bears arrive at London's Wembley Stadium for an exhibition against the Dallas Cowboys. Forget about getting in; all 80,000 seats are sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celebrities Who Travel Well | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...will be expected to be very clever, having lived always in Cambridge." The advice came late. Precocious Maynard, with the assistance of his father, a Cambridge don, had already begun collecting stamps and would soon go on to collect butterflies, pen nibs and numbers. Any numbers. Cricket statistics, people's heights and weights, train schedules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brains Alone John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...House sponsors Cookin', the Friday night campus nightclub, and the new Club Zeus, a Saturday night dance club, in the Cabot Hall basement. The house SCR includes Mike Dukakis and Bill Walton. Cabot also boasts hamburgers on request at every meal, milk and cookies every Sunday night, a spring cricket match, and the "Six-Man Suite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting to Know Your House | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...country's ultra-Marxist "revolutionary council" in October 1983. "I couldn't feel closer to anyone at this moment than I do to you," he told the cheering islanders who had been given a national holiday by the government of Prime Minister Herbert Blaize to jam the dusty cricket field at Queen's Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Grenada, Apocalypso Now | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...President spoke on a stage emblazoned with a large green and yellow sign saying "Grenada Welcomes President Reagan." Small girls dressed in red, white and blue costumes danced with floral wreaths above their heads to welcome him to the outdoor cricket park...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan Hailed as Hero in Grenada | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

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