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...flossy Four Seasons, took over as president just in time to face more problems. The recession and the trend toward more informal dining, combined with Levin's reluctance to lower the restaurant's standards, took their toll. Last week, almost simultaneously with the opening of a brash new competitor named Jimmy's, Pavilion closed its doors...
...losing battle with a heart ailment, the aging master enters a final match that takes six months to complete. Along the way he endures adjournments, squabbles over the ground rules and three changes of venue. In the end, the master's game falters, and he loses to a brash opponent half his age. Not for him the shadow of Siberia; his art having dwindled, the master also dwindles and dies a year later...
...hulking computers being sold in Europe. He was convinced that he could build a small machine for only $8,000. So Nixdorf hopped on his motorbike and set out across the countryside to find a customer. Executives of a Ruhr Valley utility company were interested in what the brash fellow offered. After he finally built the machine, orders began coming in so fast that Nixdorf quit school and opened his own shop. Now he sells to 24 countries. Nixdorf-Computer sales last year were $99 million...
...American Mark Spitz, Munich represents a second chance at superstardom. At 18 he entered the Mexico Games with two world records under his belt and brash predictions that he would win six gold medals. When he finished up with two gold, one silver and one bronze-a tidy tally for almost any other competitor-he felt "downright depressed." In truth, he had not swum his best. But Spitz seems to have regained confidence without cockiness. Though he now holds three world records in freestyle and butterfly, Spitz may not compete in the full range of individual and relay events...
...previous record: $12,000) but also the reign and reputation of Soviet chess itself. Since 1946, when the play-offs for the championship were first organized, the U.S.S.R. has so dominated the title that it seemed to be permanently engraved in Cyrillic script. No Westerner, much less a brash young American, has ever advanced to the finals. Never, that is, until now, and the resulting excitement among the estimated 60 million chess players round the world?and millions of others who do not know a double fianchetto from a double play?is of the kind usually reserved for an epic...