Word: entrants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Each entrant posts $10,000 and is expected to play until one man has won everything. The game, called "hold 'em," is unfamiliar to most kitchen-table poker nuts-a variation of seven-card stud in which each player is dealt two cards face down. Five cards are then dealt face up in the center of the table as a "community pile." The winner must make the best high hand he can out of his two hole cards and three from the community pile...
...most successful magazines ever published, Playboy has inevitably inspired imitation. The newest entrant in the flesh-fun-fashion field, however, brings the flattery of emulation to the border of plagiarism. Gallery, which went on sale last week, carries a cover slug that is identical in arrangement and type face to Playboy's, and is perhaps meant to be mistaken for it on newsstands by the nearsighted...
...NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, looking more and more like last year's rerun, concluded the second of three days of competition yesterday as Indiana slowly gathered steam and began pulling away from the field. Harvard, with only one entrant, again failed to score...
...Harvard hopes to pull an upset, the lightweights will have to win big. Penn built a 12-0 lead in its 17-17 tie with the Bulldogs. Princeton, knowing it needed to build an early advantage, told its 118 pound entrant to continually allow Yale to escape so that the Tiger could score five takedowns and a four-point decision. That strategy proved crucial in the close team score...
...Crimson expects to have an advantage in the field events. Sophomore Leon Sharpe should win both the triple jump and the high jump, but Harvard has no depth behind him. Second Joe Naughton is the favorite for the shot put and sophomore Jay Hughes, the lone 35-pound weight entrant, should give him support...