Word: player
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Four Queens Hotel in Las Vegas. With the full encouragement of the house and the Nevada State Gaming Commission, a computer has recorded the decision-making patterns of some 250 volunteers. The game that they are asked to play (with real money) has two parts: in the first, a player must select two bets, one good and one bad, from four that are offered him; in the second, he has the option to keep or get rid of a bet, depending upon how he judges its value...
...matches that could have swung the meet to Harvard were those of John Levin and Larry Terrell. Levin, facing probably the best tennis player in the Ivies, Hugh Curry, beat him decisively in the first set, 6-2 but lost the last two, 4-6, 4-6. Terrel, in a three-hour match, stated out badly, won the second match and lost third...
...Quaker who is especially likely to trouble Harvard today is number one man, Hugh Curry. Last spring, he defeated Crimson captain John Levin in two straight sets. Another very good player is Penn senior Spencer Burke, who performs in the number two slot...
...with laughter long before the term "black humorist" had been coined. In a series of fictional fables he confronted a remarkable range of topics: space, religion, creeping technology, how to love the unlovable, and even doomsday, which, as he gently observes, "could easily be next Wednesday." His first book, Player Piano (1952). told how a crew of smoothly programmed engineers take over America. Another, Cat's Cradle, began with a reporter trying to fix the whereabouts of important Americans at the time the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and ended with the end of the world. A third, Mother...
After victory was assured, the Crimson experimented with its player combinations in the doubles. Instead of Levin and "Jarvis, Washauer and Jarvis teamed up to beat McKinley and the number...