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Time Limit! (by Henry Denker and Ralph Berkey) is an effective thriller with a head in its tail. For most of the evening a flashback melodrama about a U.S. Army officer who went over to the Communists in a Korean prison camp, it winds up in what Balzac called "the trenches of the intellect," with a barrage of moral and mental queries...
...drama dealing with war psychology and ethics, Time Limit is not just another drama of this sort. Focusing their attention on the very current issue of brainwashing, playwrights Henry Denker and Ralph Berkey make distinctive contribution to a crucial problem of modern ethics...
...Russia's Botvinnik promptly outmaneuvered Denker in 25 lightning-quick moves. All Russians played a wide-open game that left the orthodox Americans staring blankly at their boards. It was not only in politics that the Russians were good chess players...
...best of Russia's ten best chess-masters engaged in the four-day frolic was Mikhail Botvinnik, an engineer whose double-thick spectacles made him look like the right man for the No. 1 board. Topping the U.S. big ten was Arnold Denker, who was a welterweight, flunked plane geometry, looked as much like a deep thinker as most 200-lb. fullbacks. Cracked Champion Denker before he dug in, by remote control,against Champion Botvinnik: "I've just got to beat him . . . my dentist's name also happens to be Botvinnik...
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