Word: playground
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DIED. NAT HOLMAN, 98, basketball coach; in New York City. Master of the "New York game," with its asphalt-playground emphasis on defense, passing and team strategy, Holman engineered City College of New York's unique twin National Invitation Tournament and ncaa championships in the 1949-50 season. A year later, the triumph was tarnished by the arrest of several of Holman's players in a point-shaving scandal...
...take advantage of the reforms, inequalities are swiftly giving rise to their inevitable byproducts: class resentment, social unrest and crime. Prostitution once again flourishes in Havana. The influx of tourists (including some Americans, who slip onto the island illegally from Nassau) sets up a stark contrast between the fantasy playground being built for foreigners and the gritty reality that ordinary Cubans must contend with. As the inequalities increase, many poor but educated Cubans view the rush to the dollar with disgust...
...fact, the all-star basketball player often returns to the bar, which backs up to Hoyt Field, the playground where Ewing shot hoops as a Cambridge youngster...
...every U.S. telephone network of any consequence was MOD's playground. At first they used their powers for harmless high jinks: looking up the unlisted numbers of celebrities, pestering people they disliked (such as white supremacist Tom Metzgar and former Klansman David Duke) and calling the homes of people they admired (Richard Gere, Julia Roberts). But gradually, they began to trespass on more than just the telephone lines. With Phiber's help, the crew infiltrated the computer networks of TRW, Martin Marietta, the Bank of America, the National Security Agency and Chiquita Banana. At one point, two MOD members...
Allen has amounted to quite a bit, considering the misfortunes that befell his typical middle-class suburban upbringing. He was born in Denver, one of six children (five boys and a girl) of Gerald and Martha Dick. His last name was the occasion for a thousand playground taunts, which taught him early on how to steel himself with humor. At age 11, however, Allen faced a far more serious trauma: on the way home from a college football game, his father was killed in a car accident. "My world changed overnight," Allen recalls in his book...