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Just One More. Pale and Haggard. Botvinnik seemed to have aged ten years; Petrosyan lost 10 Ibs. Three games had to be postponed when the combatants showed up sick. But training was starting to tell: after 21 games, Petrosyan led 12-9, needed just one more draw to clinch the best-out-of-24 match. As Game No. 22 started, a warning sign flashed KEEP SILENT, and TV cameras eagerly dollied in. After only nine moves, Petrosyan proposed a draw. Botvinnik refused. "Go ahead," he said. "Move." The challenger moved, and leaned back, his face impassive, eyes half closed. Five...
...bazooka with four rounds-handled by a man who had never fired a bazooka before in his life. The fight for El Argoup lasted a week and ended in a rout that cost the Egyptians three tanks, seven armored cars and 160 dead. De Carvalho asked a haggard sheik if his men suffered from battle fatigue. The sheik frowned: "We suffer from many diseases in Yemen, but battle fatigue-what is that...
Coach John Yovicsin, looking haggard and hampered by hoarseness, spent most of the time on light team work, emphasizing pass defense and offense and defensive kicking plays...
Last week, haggard and forlorn, claiming that his health would be impaired if the hearings continued, Stonehill, 44, offered to leave the Philippines voluntarily−a move that would permit his eventual return. But Macapagal wanted no part of Stonehill now or in the future. At week's end he ordered his arrest and immediate deportation as an undesirable alien...
...years ago, when he struck the MiVida uranium deposit on the Colorado Plateau, slim, haggard Geologist Charles A. Steen was so broke that he couldn't afford to buy milk for his children. Last week Steen agreed to sell MiVida and itc mill to New York's Atlas Corp. for $12.8 million. Steen sold for capital gains "because it was the only way I could keep anything." Steen now operates two big Nevada cattle ranches, has branched out into other kinds of mining (lead, zinc, silver, gold and mercury), recently bought a New Mexico marble quarry...