Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once said: "Baseball is a di version that both stimulates and clears the mind." Yet his interest in the arena does not fade when the World Series ends. He likes hockey, and is the kind of fan who practically joins in from his seat. "When he watches a hockey game, he participates as an extrovert would," says Irving Felt, chairman of Madison Square Garden. "Some of the wildest reactions come from people who are not outgoing by nature. Nixon is spontaneous...
Football is another favorite. At a stadium or in front of a television set, the President follows gridiron action closely, often memorizing key plays. Says White House Aide Bud Wilkinson, former University of Oklahoma football coach: "He can recall what happened in the third quarter of a game he saw twelve years ago-and even remember the name of the guy who made the play." When the Redskins kick off in the fall, Nixon is sure to be at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium rooting them on from the owners...
...Berkeley with shotguns filled with buckshot and birdshot and rock salt, and they killed one man--a white man. Black men died in colleges before, at Orange-burg last year and before and since. But hen they killed a white man, which was turning against their own. The game is over now. While it lasted, it was our own, what we did, our education, our exhilaration. They said we were zealous and concerned; that satisfied their need for explanations. But now the game is over. It is different when they are ready to shoot you. We are still afraid...
...Psychedelic Mixer, Memorial Hall Featuring sounds by the Bead Game, psychedelic lighting by RockSonics and free refreshments. Admission: $1 per person plus presentation of Harvard Summer School Privilege Card or Harvard-Radcliffe Bursar's Card...
...public tragedies tend to become cautionary tales. Survivors of Munich have learned a lesson by heart: appeasement is a loser's game. But today, most men are not so sure as they once were of just what constitutes "appeasement"-or whether a policy of "get tough" is a winner's game either. Still, if the tactical lessons of Munich seem less and less simple to apply, its moral implications are not. The tragic events of history, so often in retrospect accepted as inevitable, were shaped by human will and wisdom-or the lack of them...