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Polar lee. Debus let his gaze linger on the mighty Saturn V rocket beneath the Apollo 17 spaceship. "The Saturn V is the end too," said Debus. "I don't believe we will build a stronger rocket in this century. The Saturn can boost a payload of 200,000 lbs. into orbit. If you want more payload than that, it is cheaper to launch several Saturns than to develop a new rocket...
...despicable ploy, and as a distracting gambit it is forbidden in formal play. So are humming and singing. But there are subtler, quieter ways of psyching. Many players have been accused of trying to hypnotize opponents. Former World Champion Mikhail Tal has been credited with a "laserlike gaze," and Bobby Fischer with a "strange magnetic influence"-long before the ludicrous Russian charge last week that the Americans had installed brain-boggling electronics in Reykjavik...
...Provo commander is Martin MacGuinness, a 22-year-old redhead wearing a freshly laundered Princeton T shirt and the untroubled gaze of the pure in heart. Said MacGuinness: "We will now begin to concentrate on army targets and sabotage their installations. We have proved we can do what we like in Londonderry. We are sick, sore and tired of being treated by the British government as little boys." Two days before the truce broke down, he was among the six Provo leaders flown secretly to London for talks with Ulster Proconsul William Whitelaw. Now, MacGuinness vowed, "we will not stop...
...Champion Mikhail Botvinnik( 1948-57,1958-60, 1961-63) used to train for a match by having an aide blow smoke in his eyes. Matched against the U.S.S.R.'s Mikhail Tal, a former world champion (1960-61) who has been accused of trying to hypnotize rivals with his laserlike gaze, U.S. Grand Master Pal Benko wore sunglasses throughout the game. Says U.S. Grand Master Robert Byrne: "In chess I follow one rule: Don't trust anyone...
Lehmbruck was a finely responsive modeler, but he rarely contrived to give his nudes the unabashed, vigorous monumentality of Maillol's. Qualified by unease, bowed down by shame, indecision or guilt, they avert their gaze and seem on the point of flight or evaporation. The result was a fervently decorative and mannered style of representing the nude, which owed a great deal to Modigliani. A sculpture like Seated Girl, 1913-14, with its long geometrical curve running from toe through thigh and torso to the impossible declination of the neck, is a fascinating prediction of Art Deco: coarser variants...