The world’s largest Scrabble club meets every Tuesday night and is ‘more like a big family,’ says one player. By June Barsky April 1983 was a busy month: The Space Shuttle Challenger made its first voyage, the Tokyo Disneyland opened, 63 people were killed when the US Embassy in Beirut was bombed, the failure of fuel rods at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant in Russia caused the reactor to shut down, and Soviet Union leader Yuri Andropov invited a US schoolgirl to visit him after he read her letter expressing fears about nuclear war. But while these episodes were playing out on a world stage, another — quieter — event was unfolding in Israel. ...
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 09:02:46 +0000
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