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This afternoon at 3 p.m. at the IAB, the Crimson squares off against Ivy League cellar-dweller Brown, who is 0-5 for the year. The relative optimism Lee is approaching this match with--"We should beat them"--is a contrast with his outlook on tomorrow's IAB meeting with...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Improving Wrestlers to Tackle Bruins | 2/15/1974 | See Source »

Invented in 1970 by a Cambridge University mathematician named John Horton Conway and popularized by Mathematical Games Expert Martin Gardner in the pages of Scientific American, Life is a kind of solitaire played by one person on a checkerboard or graph paper, or indeed any gridlike field that contains adjoining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flop of the Century? | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

When Atlantic City threatened last year to change the names of its Baltic and Mediterranean avenues, Parker sprang to eloquent defense of his firm's best-selling game, Monopoly (whose board squares are named after real estate in the seaside resort), and succeeded in preserving not only the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 14, 1974 | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

The night before Harvard squares off against Temple, Penn (3-1) will battle California (2-3) and Fordham (3-2) will take on Penn State (3-3).

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Crimson Cagers to Face Temple Owls In Quaker City Christmas Tournament | 12/20/1973 | See Source »

In the 16th century, the Mogul Emperor Akbar the Great decided to erect a new capital for his empire on the dry plains of northern India. Vast amounts of money were spent, and the best architects and artisans were hired to lay out its imposing squares and build its graceful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: What Went Wrong | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

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