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...only won by a wide margin but swept his last seven games in a row. That advanced him to a match against veteran Soviet Grand Master Mark Taimanov in Vancouver last year. Fischer defeated him in six straight games. Then, last July in Denver, Fischer took on Denmark's Bent Larsen, ranked second only to Bobby in the West, and stunned him by again winning six straight games. The 19 straight victories were without parallel in grand-master chess history. Declared Sovietski Sport: "A miracle has occurred!" Then nine months ago, Fischer tangled with Petrosian again in Buenos Aires...
Besides the present monetary crisis (see THE ECONOMY) the Common Market still has not worked out joint positions on other pressing issues that face a community that will expand from six members to ten next January, with the addition of Britain, Ireland, Denmark and Norway. The issues include the crucial question of how far and how fast the members should move toward political integration, their position toward the U.S. and a common stand on the approaching conference on European security. As a starting point for threshing out those problems, a summit meeting of the Ten was scheduled to be held...
...life expectancy it ranks only 24th for men and ninth for women. American men live an average 67.1 years,* and American women 74.6 years. Men survive longer in most Western European nations, as well as in Japan, Israel, Greece, East Germany, Australia and some other countries. Indeed, in Norway, Denmark and The Netherlands, men live longer than 70 years on the average; in Sweden, the world's leader, male longevity is 71.9 years-almost five years more than in the U.S. While U.S. women do appreciably better, they still rank behind women in Sweden, The Netherlands, Iceland, Norway, Denmark...
...reason that the world's richest nation ranks so low is that, unlike Denmark or Japan, it is a huge and heterogeneous country. Many of its people, particularly nonwhites and rural folk, do not receive the benefits of sound nutrition and medical care. For much of the rest of the population, the good life does not contribute much to long life simply because Americans tend to overdo things. They consume too much in the way of calories and cholesterol, nicotine and alcohol. Overeating causes high blood pressure and strokes. Oversmoking contributes to arteriosclerosis and lung disease. Overdrinking leads...
...availability of food has improved markedly. Hothouse-grown cucumbers are sold year-round but they cost more than $1 a pound. There are frozen ducks and chickens from Hungary and Denmark, eggs imported from Poland. Perhaps the single most noticeable change is the relative profusion of automobiles. In a country that has inadequate housing, there is now debate over whether the state should build heated indoor garages...