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...Jai Sun Kim and Tol Seung Yang, two visiting students from South Kores, will speak on "Korea's Future" at a Political Laboratory meeting sponsored by the United Nations Council tonight at 8 p.m. in the Winthrop Senior Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Korean Students Will Discuss Homeland at Winthrop Tonight | 10/2/1951 | See Source »

Fradd Ball is described by its creator as "a mutation of volley ball." Played in a low-ceiling court on the third floor of the Indoor Athletic Building, the game often takes on elements of football, basketball, and jai alai. Fradd Ball's basic rule is that every surface in the room is playable, and that the ball (a volley ball) becomes dead if it touches the floor more than once on each play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Find Fradd Ball Foils Frustration | 3/28/1950 | See Source »

...American with "muchas pesetas" (exchange rates were favorable)--regional dishes like roast suckling pig, and eggs "al flamenca" with typical sauces and spices were cheap and delicious. Few visitors missed keen Jai-alai games (a Basque invention, Jai-alai and pelota, which resemble squash, are two of the world's swiftest, most exhausting sports). The sparkling wit of the decadent Spanish theater commences evenings at 11 as do most films. The most spectacular events, however, beside peasant flestas, were the colorful bullfights put on in large arenas every Sunday...

Author: By Julian I. Edison, | Title: Spain Offers Hot Climate, Bullfights, Attracts Few | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

While not slighting the legal National Lottery (government percentage: 19%) and the well-taxed (15%) wagers on the jai alai games at the vast downtown Frontón, citizens of Mexico City not tony enough for brincos find plenty of ways to risk their money. Some go to the cockfights at the Posada de los Cuatro Caminos, just outside the Federal District limits, where pesos change hands with every spur-thrust. Thousands play la bolita, an illegal policy game paying off 80 t01 on the last two numbers of the regular winning National Lottery ticket. In the bullfight fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Brinco! | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...biutiparlor for a champu and a maniquiur. In a franker bid for a picop, some apply lipstic from a vaniti-queis right out in the street. Depending on how much of a bigchot she attracts, a lucky girl will eat jot dogs and aiscrim, go to the muvis, drink jai bols at a cocteil parti, or perhaps even go for a dip in the boy friend's suiminpul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Emparedados | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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