Word: wickham
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kept for research of its own. Not surprisingly, he received repeated refusals. Ultimately, Harvard had to intervene, endorsing the study on the strength of the impeccable antidrug credentials Weil had earned as a result of the Leary-Alpert affair. Not long after, federal officials relented. "One day," says Woodward Wickham, Weil's Harvard roommate and now a vice president at the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, "this box of government marijuana just arrived in the mail...
...Ezra (H) def. Trevithich (MIT), 3-0; 2. Bruonner (H) def. Chaudhury (M), 3-1; 3. Oh (H) def. Veboah Amanicwsh (M), 3-0; 4. Masland (H) def. Wickham (M) 3-2; S. Pratt (H) def. Kaplan (M), 3-0; 6. Kaplan (H) def. Femandes (M), 3-0; 7. Halpert (H) def. Shanas (M), 3-0; 8. Watts (H) def. Wong (M), 3-0; 9. Palfrey (H) def. Kissenpfennig...
With his fast talk about how to "strategize" a craps table, his self- designed gold-inlaid ruby belt buckle and a jet-black Western shirt embroidered with two crimson roses, Ken Wickham, 63, is the very image of a high-rolling gambler. He stands 6 ft. 6 in. in his 10-gallon hat that is festooned with red feathers and a Hopi rain-dance pin for good luck. Wickham soon lets you know he's no ordinary man: he says he's an evangelist minister who flew half a dozen missions with the 101st Airborne Division in World...
...which makes Wickham just the right man for the job at hand: a slot- machine tournament at Trump's Castle casino in Atlantic City. Perhaps no one among the 360 participants is better equipped for the slot battle than Wickham, who owns a Jackson, N.J., sewer business whose motto somehow says it all: "If You Ain't on Our S--- List, You're No Friend of Ours." Clearly, here's a man who knows a royal flush when he sees one. But his real game, the one he has sharpened through 20 tournaments during the past four years...
...Wickham leans over and pecks his wife of 42 years, Gladys, on the cheek. "Wish me luck, honey," he calls, as a uniformed security guard lines the players up double file and marches them into the chandeliered casino, where 30 gleaming Super Seven slot machines are cordoned off behind red velvet ropes. Sauntering nonchalantly up to his machine, Wickham assumes a calm, assured stance as he awaits the starting buzzer of Round...