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...basketball team has a streak of its own--six straight wins, the longest since a seven-gamer in 1970-71. That skein is on the line this afternoon, when the hoopsters meet Merrimack at the IAB in a 2 p.m. start. Should the Crimson win, the resulting seven-game streak will tie the longest streak in Harvard history...
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Wellington-the living one and no kin -is a stockbroker from Fort Wayne, Ind. As a miniaturist war gamer, meaning one who uses realistic figures, not counters, he is considered one of the hobby's aristocrats. With good reason. All of the 600 or so figures on his table, each about 2 in. tall, were painstakingly hand-painted in the exact regimental colors and insignia of the period. The cost of the miniatures is about $1.75 per man. Wellington meets other armchair generals about three times a year. Object: large-scale wars involving as many as 4,000 figures...
...next table, JoEllen Burton, 25, of Dayton studied a rule book while her husband, Jack, helped field-marshal a 15th century Franco-Austrian war. She too is a war gamer. "It was either that or be alone," she confessed. "I finally decided that it's his hobby, so why not get into it?" War gaming is still a bastion of male chauvinism, apparently; JoEllen's tactful explanation is that "too many men feel uncomfortable unless women are very good at it. The group I'm in at home has been very patient with...
Thus the law on obscenity is bewildering, even to many lawyers, though some are gamer than others in defending it. "The landmark case of Roth," wrote Earl Warren Jr. recently, "is still valuable, and in fact has gained viability with each succeeding interpretation, even though it now bears little resemblance to what we originally thought...