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...among the players who are frank (and in some cases rank) amateurs that the motivation for chess is more likely to be affective, at the level of ventilating aggression. Jim Rathmann, 23, bartender at the Bismarck Inn in Chicago, has identified with Fischer during the current match. As he chalks up a new win for the challenger, he exults: "He's going to crush Spassky! He's on an ego trip, but he's still the greatest chess player ever." As for himself, Rathmann says simply, "Winning gives me a feeling of power...
Boredom and resentment were heightened by shabby living conditions. Many units are garrisoned in barracks once used by Hitler's Wehrmacht, some built in Bismarck's day. Heat and hot water are inadequate, plaster peels, pipes leak, and toilets overflow. Nearby Bundeswehr (West German army) troops, meanwhile, live comfortably in post-World War II quarters...
...Palestine in 1919, founded a technical high school and the Haifa Nautical School, came to the U.S. for graduate study in education at Columbia University. On a visit to Denmark in 1930, Bardin learned how the Folk High Schools there in the 19th century effectively blocked Germanization by Bismarck's Prussia. They did so by emphasizing Danish folk culture and a love of working with the soil while maintaining a spirited intellectual atmosphere. Bardin appropriated the concept, reinforced it with the kibbutz ideal of cooperative living, and added the recreational aspects of the American summer camp...
Allwood's experience points up the major difference between European and American medicine. Ever since Chancellor Otto von Bismarck initiated the first such plan for German workers in 1883, national health programs have been an important aspect of the welfare state. The Swedes have had a national health system since 1955, the Norwegians since 1956; Britain adopted its national health scheme in 1948. Indeed, among the world's major industrial nations, only the U.S. has thus far failed to devise some kind of national program that either provides or subsidizes comprehensive health care...
EACH tableau represents a turning point in the history of Europe?and of the world. Contrary to Carlyle's bright hopes, a united and powerful Germany proved neither noble nor patient. Twice Bismarck's heirs burst across their borders in cataclysmic wars that ended with two new superpowers, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, facing each other across a divided continent?a division dramatically symbolized by the hideous masonry of the Berlin Wall. A quarter of a century after the end of World War II, no European peace treaty has been written, and, in a very real sense, the results...