Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks, TIME will run free of charge a full-page ad and an adjoining column prepared by an agency on any subject of its choosing, whether it be the country, the world, peace, poverty, society, itself. The response has been rapid and abundant. One agency launched a contest among its 13 offices around the world. At another agency, the president decided to make sure of the excellence of its offering by doing it himself...
...petition for a new trial, the Palmers accuse their first lawyer of "inexperience, incompetency and/or neglect" in defending them. Among other points, they charge that the attorney did not file essential pre-trial motions, took no exception to "prejudicial evidence" and failed to contest the composition of the jury. Backing the family in the legal battle is a Connecticut committee formed to "Remember the Palmers...
...wily Tigran Petrosian, the former street cleaner who swept through the ranks of top chess players to win the world title in 1963. The challenger was bold, brilliant Boris Spassky, who closeted himself with a psychologist for six months to get in shape for the match. Their championship contest was only the seventh held in the past 21 years. The fact that once again, as in the previous six title matches, both men were from the U.S.S.R.* attests to the country's domination of the game. In team play, the Soviets have won every World Team Championship, held biennially...
...each game they win, ½ point for a draw). The Armenians in the audience moaned. Said one official: "It was like the funeral of a father." Then Petrosian rallied. Baffling Spassky with his impenetrable defenses, he tied the score at 6 to 6. For the next six games, the contest was a standoff; one expert described it as a battle between "the young tiger who jumps on his prey and the old crocodile who waits for the right moment for the decisive blow." Then, in the crucial 19th game, Spassky quickly went to the attack and, with a flurry...
...that radius, Russia has 50 airfields. Russian pilots on reconnaissance missions constantly overfly the outward few miles of Chinese territory. Some of the Soviet units stationed along the border are equipped with rockets, and nearly all have the latest and best Russian guns and military vehicles. Even in the contest to populate border areas Russia is far ahead of China, with up to 100 persons per square mile in places, compared to China's average of 2.6 persons. Despite all those advantages, Moscow is obviously taking no chances...