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...audition for Marshal Chess, business manager of the Rolling Stones, and director of Rolling Stones Records. A contract through Chess--coming just as Lyons and Peter Cohen graduated from Marblehead High School--with Atlantic Records followed in August...
...extremely methodical man who approaches the game with the air of a Ph.D. candidate, Griese likes to equate football with chess: "In a game I think of myself as looking down on a situation from above, like a chess player. I can see moves coming and I'm ready to make them. When you're a rookie you feel just like another one of the pieces. You can't see everybody because you're down among them. But when you have total grasp and knowledge of what's going on, then you feel...
...amassed for a football game. In the CBS control room, Verna will continually monitor shots taken by each of his cameramen. All through the game he will have to make snap decisions about which view he wants on the air. The job, says Verna, will be like "playing blindfold chess. I've already played the Super Bowl game in my head five or six times." In each make-believe version, CBS wins...
...cabinet members, who were mostly hand-picked opportunists from minor parties. They are expected to face trial as war criminals. Their wives and other Pakistani women lived in fear, and the frequent moaning from their rooms at the Intercontinental contrasted eerily with the noisy candlelight poker and chess games of the correspondents who were not standing four-hour guard duty to keep out intruders. The hotel roof could hardly have been a better place for TV crews to grind away at air strikes. During the raids, shrapnel was occasionally fished out of the swimming pool, and a large time bomb...
With all its ingenuity and affluence, the U.S. has somehow contrived to make a mockery of that assertion of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on behalf of the elderly. Victims of a society that has prolonged life but shortened its usefulness, they sit playing chess, feeding birds or nodding in the sun in geriatric ghettos from San Diego to St. Petersburg. If less well off, they huddle in threadbare apartments in central cities, eking out a meager existence on Social Security, daring the sidewalks only when necessity overrides fear and infirmity...