Word: games
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congratulations for explaining the way the Big Oil Game [May 7] is played. It's easy to blame the companies, but it's also a gross injustice. Only when people understand this incredibly complex situation will they realize the energy crisis is for real, and not a plot of the oil companies. The Federal Government is the worst offender in spreading the myth that big oil companies are ripping off the public...
...maintain his grandfather's famous racing stables. "I'm not much for sport," replied the prince, then 20. "I don't know what I'll do with the horses." Quickly enough the young heir developed a passionate interest in what he described as "a game of chess with nature"-the breeding of horses -and today he reigns supreme over the French horse-racing establishment. His sport has led him into a bitter dispute over a multimillion-dollar string of Thoroughbreds...
CHASE THE GAME...
Chase the Game focuses on three high-spirited adolescents from the decaying slums of Bridgeport, Conn. Walter Luckett, who made the cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED while just out of high school, is a gifted black who feels more at ease with whites and plays a cool, deliberate white man's game. Cousins Frank Oleynick and Barry McLeod are whites who feel most comfortable with blacks. All three are players of great promise. None keeps the promise...
Paced like a playoff, Chase the Game derives much of its immediacy from the life and language of men coming to painful maturity. Its power comes from the Ditter conclusion that skill on the playing field is not synonymous with character. There have been scores of books on the superstars of every sport; success Breeds fans. Failure has only a few aficionados, and Jordan is one of the finest. In Auden's phrase, he sings of human unsuccess, and in the song turns case his tories on the defeated into a kind of triumph...