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...even if the issue were clearly understood, people might not act much differently when it comes to the crunch. A grape is one thing; it has a kind of bacchanalian image, succulent and superfluous. It is a luxury. But plebian iceberg lettuce that makes a harsh noise when you munch it is a humble staple. People are not so willing to give...
INCUMBENT Presidents traditionally start election campaigns with comfortable leads, only to see them narrow or vanish in the crunch of events and the campaigning itself. Richard Nixon's margin at this point seems not only comfortable but overwhelming. The first of a new series of TIME Polls, conducted by Daniel Yankelovich Inc., between July 24 and Aug. 7, took soundings from 2,320 representative voters from 16 "battleground" states, including seven deemed critical by both parties. * The sample, interviewed in depth by telephone concerning wide-ranging issues and attitudes, gave Nixon a 2-to-l edge over George McGovern...
...tamer." They first met in Denver last July. In New York City, the two drank beer in an East Side tavern, then shared a few games of chess. "He showed no pity," says Hillenbrand. "He would come crashing down the board, picking off my pieces with cries of 'Crunch...
...painfully familiar on the grand-master circuit. For all its sedentary appearance, chess is a brutally punishing game. A recent physiological experiment at Temple University showed that chess drained as much energy out of a player as did a comparable session of boxing or football. In the crunch of play, in fact, it is not unusual for a grand master to faint dead away, or lose 15 Ibs. or more during a tournament. Under stress, the late Latvian grand master Aron Nimzovich used to stand on his head between moves to keep the vital juices flowing. The Yugoslav chess team...
...might seem. In tournaments he sits transfixed, his foot tapping rapidly to the beat of some inner fury. Playing through solitary games in his room, he slams home each move with cries of "Crunch!" "Chop!" "Smash!" "Crash!" U.S. Grand Master Robert Byrne suggests that the demon in him is his "pursuit of the Idea of the game, in the Platonic sense. All of us players have that ideal. But Bobby knows how to embody it. He has the ability to overcome the chaotic mess and the complexity of modern chess, the baroque scramble, and isolate a single theme, a single...