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...bony 34-year-old with a quick mind and a quick mouth, and he is one of the nation's two leading designers and publishers of war games. Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI), the firm he started seven years ago, does incredibly complex recreations of such historical battles as Waterloo, Agincourt, Gettysburg, and sells them at the rate of about $2 million worth a year. Avalon Hill Game Co., the other big manufacturer, markets such simulations as Starship Troopers, a science-fiction game, and the complex tank-warfare re-creation Tobruk. Dunnigan's firm also imagines wars that have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Games People Play: 1977 | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Linksters Third in Toski Tournament | 10/4/1977 | See Source »

Johnson started off his round by going five-over par after five holes but then buckled down to play the remaining 15 holes in one-over. Johnson started his round on the 14th hole, which he promptly bogeyed. His Waterloo came on the par three 17th. He plunked his tee shot into a greenside bunker, bellied his sand shot over the green, and took a triple bogey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Linksters Third in Toski Tournament | 10/4/1977 | See Source »

...seemed that Graham had found his Waterloo on the 17th, a short but heavily trapped par-four, when his drive hooked into a chute of trees at the crook of the dogleg on the left side of the fairway. He seemed destined for a certain bogey but instead hit a low, zinging iron that seemed to change direction in mid-flight. The ball skirted the bunker on the left side of the green and kicked to within six feet of the pin. Graham needed to hole out to drawn even with Green but his tentative putt was never on line...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Green Displays Classic Courage and Grace in Open Win | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

Fitzgibbons shot a 76 for his first 18 circuit that placed him in second place. He faltered to an 81 on Friday. His Waterloo proved to be the eighth hole. Fitzgibbons took a double bogey trying to steer the ball away from the out of bounds on the right when he nestled in the left rough instead...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Fourth in NCAA Trail, Eighth in Eastern | 5/10/1977 | See Source »

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