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...expertly cued balls echoed off the ceiling. Squinting, stretching, chalking, the players met each other twice in round-robin competition for the $5,000 first prize. Each game was standard "14.1 ball": 15 colored target balls are set on the table and the players take turns using a white cue ball to knock them into any pockets they choose. Each contestant can continue shooting as long as he keeps pocketing the target balls, which are replenished when only one of them remains. Each time a player fails to pocket a ball, worth one point, the other takes over. The first...
...Crane evokes the days of billiards in private drawing rooms, played by aristocrats in smoking jackets. In fact, Crane had his own miniature pool table at the age of eleven, a gift from his lawyer father. Ebullient Machine Gun, so nicknamed because of his rapid-fire technique with a cue, was even more precocious. He had his own table when he was only seven; that was when his mother died and the pool room that his father owned became little Lou's playroom...
...institutionalized all dissent into four groups by establishing student-faculty subcommittees: the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), the Committee on Student and Community Relations (CSCR), and the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE...
About a year ago, the 30 students, who were elected to choose from among themselves the five student members of the CUE, incorporated themselves into the Educational Resources Group (ERG). The group created itself to investigate possibilities of educational reform...
...choice of a city for the world championship chess match this spring was Belgrade, which offered the most cash-$152,000. Russian Champion Boris Spassky, nixing Belgrade for political reasons, picked Reykjavik, Iceland. When neither side would give in, Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, took his cue from King Solomon and split the difference: twelve games in Belgrade, then twelve in Reykjavik. "It's a mistake," said Fischer. "You will have double the problems. People are going to be confused, moving around, and it will seem like a road show. I don't like...