Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...honeymoon will wait until February, when the Palm Beach, Fla. exhibition of his prison paintings has closed. Still, Watergater E. Howard Hunt, 59, found time to pop open some bubbly and toast his new bride. She is Laura Martin, 31, a former Georgia schoolteacher whom he met through friends over a year ago. It has been ten months since Hunt finished his jail term for Watergate burglary, and he says, "I'm very optimistic and look forward to peace and quiet." And prosperity. Hunt's paintings have been moving well (one recently went...
Sherman Holcombe, once-suspended Shop Steward of the Radcliffe Dining Halls, comes out of self-imposed retirement to release his autobiography, entitled Pimento. It is co-authored by Lillian Hellman, who claims that "like me, Sherman was the victim of a witch-hunt." Holcombe shakes up the press conference by telling Hellman to "speak for yourself...
...accessible only by boat or plane; frequent rains and fog and surrounding lofty mountains often make landings a pilot's nightmare. For these reasons, Alaskans have long debated a possible change of capitals. In 1974, after two unsuccessful initiatives, they finally voted to make the move, and the hunt began for a new site...
...Evangelical movement stands in an equivocal position. It is large but not organized, and often fragmented by arguments over matters like the "inerrancy" of the Bible. But the movement is now richer and more powerful than it has been in half a century. Men like Billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, Presbyterian son of H.L. Hunt, are prepared to help it. Hunt is head of Bill Bright's international executive committee, and considers the stupendous goal of raising $1 billion "absolutely realistic." Bright's overall chairman, Baptist Wallace Johnson (the "praying millionaire" of Holiday Inns), travels 20,000 miles a month lining...
...loathsome beings that guard it. The game involves a dungeon of six or more descending levels drawn on graph paper and includes such monsters as Balrogs, Purple Worms, Giant Leeches, Nixies, Griffons and Invisible Stalkers. Players take the characters of men, hobbits, elves or dwarfs and fight or hunt treasure according to elaborate rules: "The charisma score is usable to decide such things as whether a witch capturing a player will turn him into a swine or keep him enchanted as a lover." One game in Cambridge, Mass., played every Saturday by members of M.I.T.'s Strategic Games Society...