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...Yovicsin, who strongly believed in the three yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust approach to the game. You know, Yovicsin was pretty Puritan in his outlook--he wanted his squads to take just enough to get by and not give up any frivolous benefits to the opponents. Defense and grind it out'. That fitted John...
...some of his more conservative convictions during his first term because they were not politically palatable. So he might be tougher, and he might also settle some old scores. Asserts one Republican: "Having prevailed and been ratified, having nothing further ahead of him politically, why wouldn't he grind his enemies under his heel?" Others foresee a very "relaxed" second term under a mellower Nixon, presiding over a healing "era of good feeling" in the nation. That, of course, would require a quite different use of Spiro Agnew, a less rhetorical and more substantive role for him in domestic...
...that madness that unleashes the spectators' glee. I am not amused by it. I keep the cool, calm pose of the chemist measuring out his medicine. I put into my pill a gram of imbroglio, a gram of licentiousness, a gram of observation. As well as I can, I grind them all into a powder. And I can tell, almost without fail, the effect that they will produce...When the work is done, what a relief! I regain my freedom. Georges Feydeau...
...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 travels with a portable sauna and a trainer who leads them in daily calisthenics. In the 24-game grind of a world title match, says former World Champion Tigran Petrosian, "chess may start out as an art or science, but in the end it is an athletic event...
...Sorbonne, Lansner was an assistant philosophy professor at Ohio's Kenyon College and an editor of Art News before he joined Newsweek in 1954. Last week, while Lansner talked about "becoming a human being again, even having weekends off," Elliott claimed to welcome his own return to the grind. "It was a long haul," he said of his previous stint as editor, "but now the pressure has cooled, and I'm looking forward to going back in. I guess I'm gung-ho." A former TIME writer who joined Newsweek in 1955, he will...