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...trouble with Weiss's complaint lies in the assumption that only the U.S. can solve what is a global problem. Says David Fischer, a former assistant director-general of the I.A.E.A.: "The U.S. can no longer legislate the world nuclear industry. That may mean more nonnuclear diplomacy rather than nuclear denial...
Harvard also attempted unsuccessfully to lure away both Rudiger Dornbusch and Stanles Fischer from MIT between 1980 and 1982 leading to speculation that the department, are "raiding" each other for faculty members...
Though neither is highly educated, in the study of their games they were prodigies as children, and are intellectuals now. By some similar force of instinct and understanding--maybe Chess Grand Master Bobby Fischer would know about this--they see and play the game several moves ahead of the moment, comprehending not only where everything is but also where everything will be. Shown a photograph of a nondescript instant on the ice, Gretzky can replace the unpictured performers here and there about the periphery and usually recall what became of them the next second. Glancing at the basketball photo...
...endurance contest, in a sense, was a legacy of brilliant, eccentric U.S. Champion Bobby Fischer, who beat Russian Boris Spassky for the world title in 1972. Fischer fiercely objected to the 24-game system then in use, which scored a half-point for a draw and permitted a champion to win merely by drawing every game. Fischer insisted that there should be no limit on games; a champion should have to beat his opponent decisively, not coast to victory...
...owned by General Motors, hopes to be selling 80,000 cars in the U.S. in 1987. Kia, a Korean conglomerate, could link up with Ford, and Chrysler has held talks with Samsung, another firm with designs on the U.S. market. Maryann Keller, an auto-industry expert with Vilas-Fischer Assoc. in New York City, predicts that imports from such countries as South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico and Brazil will one day control the important U.S. market...