Word: piked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coach Steve Pike's squad found out the hard way Saturday just how much separates the level of water polo play in the East from that of the West. Ranked number one in the nation last year and unlikely to be challenged this campaign. Stanford swam circles around a suddenly hapless Harvard team. The aquamen were happy to leave the pool alive, despite the 20-goal loss...
...intense bidding war of recruiting, Pike managed to lure four experienced high school players to Cambridge. Golden Bears Brian Johnson (Santa Barbara), goalie Brian Graham (Los Angeles), and Winthrop Pescasolidos (Exeter), along with Milwaukeean John David lead the Yardling contingent...
...Nechayev. Halliday's fee: $50,000. Such jack being rare for a hack, Halliday warily takes on the job. It leads him to Italy and to the mailer of the bomb, an unsavory entrepreneur of many aliases-Zander, Brochet, Hecht, Luccio-all of which, in various languages, mean pike, the fish...
...dealer. Instead of penciling a manuscript-there is no manuscript-Halliday finds himself enmeshed in devious negotiations initiated by a Persian Gulf emir identified only as the Ruler. The potentate is eager to lease territory he controls to NATO as a major allied military base. Zander-Luccio, the Pike, serves as middleman in the deal, hoping that a grateful U.S. Government will thereafter provide him with political asylum and a new identity. After a long career of nastiness in the Middle East, he has learned that he is the target of an international hit gang named Muk h abarat Zentrum...
...also been one of the most felicitous movie scenarists of his generation (A Night to Remember, The Cruel Sea), may have developed his unerring tempo from that medium. His labyrinthine plots, however, are uniquely Amblerian. Hero Halliday, who is forced into acting as intermediary between the Ruler, the Pike and NATO intelligence, finally meets the sheik in a house above an abandoned silver mine in Austria. Though the mine is supposed to be a potential treatment center for respiratory diseases, Halliday discovers that the potentate has far more sinister intentions. What follows thereafter is a frenetic and wholly plausible chase...