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Croquet as played in this stretch of paradise is a far cry from the backyard game forced on kids to keep them from killing one another before the hot dogs are served. The grownup version is a maze of complicated tactics, arcane terminology and bizarre rules played against a ticking stopwatch. A good player must have the wrists of Jack Nicklaus, the concentration of Bobby Fischer and the eye of Minnesota Fats. Ricocheting at precisely the right spot off the steel wicket is one way to get the grapefruit-size ball through the narrow hoop, anchored an unforgiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Windsor, California Such Splendor On the Grass | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...question of who is going to have jurisdiction and under what conditions" over every aspect of reservation life, says Ron LaFrance, acting director of the American Indian Program at Cornell University. A bitter power struggle between three competing tribal councils has been exacerbated by disagreements among a maze of U.S. and Canadian government agencies that oversee the reservation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mohawks, Money and Death | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

Gulick said Sharp excelled in science courses and especially enjoyed doing class projects. She recalled one project in which he and a classmate conditioned mice to meander their way through a maze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biologist Named Head of MIT | 2/17/1990 | See Source »

Young Nadya is one of 605 employees chosen from 27,000 Soviet applicants who responded to a small help-wanted ad that McDonald's officials placed last November. After 14 years of negotiating a maze of Soviet bureaucrats, the first McDonald's in the Soviet Union is scheduled to open this week. Situated on Pushkin Square, just a few blocks from the Kremlin, the restaurant will introduce a new concept: fast food. To handle the anticipated Big Mak attack, the McDonald's has a seating capacity of 700, the largest in the 11,300- restaurant chain, and can serve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow's Big Mak Attack | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...could the caretaker government be certain of security. It appealed "for an end to acts of revenge," but Securitate gunmen sniped intermittently from Bucharest's rooftops; others were believed to be hiding out in a maze of tunnels and secret passages Ceausescu had constructed under the capital's streets. Fighting around the city's international airport forced the frequent interruption of flights. There were ongoing firefights in Timisoara, Arad and Brasov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumania Unfinished Revolution | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

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