Word: chess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was evident in Peking recently at the Third National Games, a 17-day internal Chinese Olympics. The huge grab bag of a gala involved more than 10,000 athletes vying in dozens of events including track, rowing, shooting, martial arts and chess. During the opening ceremonies at the 80,000-seat Workers' Stadium, the Chinese practiced their flash-card magic; more than 8,000 people were pressed into service to flash poster-size cards. The result of this collective enterprise: "Ode to the Red Flag," a kaleidoscope of socialist realism scenes, beginning with the message...
...used the money to finance his next acquisition. By 1968 the Slater, Walker pyramid had grown to 500 firms and Slater's personal fortune had risen to an estimated $10 million. He bought a lavish manor in Surrey and spent long weekends there indulging his passion for chess. In 1972 he provided $125,000 of his own cash as a prize for the world chess championship, luring a reluctant Bobby Fischer into his celebrated match with Boris Spassky...
...foreign policy, unless you have an overall design, your behavior grows random. It is as if, when you are playing chess, a group of kibitzers keeps making moves for you. They may be better chess players than you are, but they cannot possibly get a coherent game developed. Especially if, at the same time, you have to explain each of your moves publicly so that your opponent can hear...
Married. Boris Spassky, 38, former international chess champion; and Marina Stcherbatcheff, 30, a secretary at the French embassy in Moscow; he for the third time, she for the first; in Moscow. When Spassky first announced his intention to marry the pretty French-born daughter of Russian emigres, Soviet bureaucracy said she would have to leave the Soviet Union by Sept. 30. Anxious to avoid an international scandal on the eve of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's October visit to the U.S.S.R., Russian authorities relented. Said Spassky: "Now I have an extra queen...
Moscow does not suffer defeat graciously-at least if its treatment of Boris Spassky is any clue. Since his 1972 loss to Bobby Fischer in the battle for the world chess championship, Grand Master Spassky, 38, has been snubbed by the Soviet government, denounced by Pravda and denied visas for travel abroad. Recently, however, all that has begun to look like a minor prelude to the latest problem Spassky's government has created...