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...ChampionBobby Fischer, 19, invoked the majesty of the law against former Champion Samuel Reshevsky, 50, himself an ex-boy wonder. Having defaulted a 16-game series with Reshevsky last summer by disdaining to show up for an 11 a.m. match, Late-Riser Fischer sued for resumption of the competition lest ''his reputation as the most skillful and proficient chess player in the U.S. be irreparably damaged and tarnished...
...hubbub was an Italian law prohibiting tobacco advertising entirely. Though Italy's cynical citizens assumed that the law was meant to protect the cigarettes produced by the state tobacco monopoly against competition from imported cigarettes (whose sales depend much more heavily on advertising), U.S. tobaccomen began to worry lest the U.S. Government take a cue from Britain and Italy. They found scant comfort in news that the U.S. Public Health Service has just decided to set up a panel to study the relationship between smoking and cancer...
...Lest the nation's growing army of me chanical brains eventually crowd...
...Christians. After the meeting, Pope John presented Dr. Craig and his delegation with books and medals, and in return was given a silver bookmark and a stone from Lake Tiberius in the Holy Land. L'Osservatore Romano pronounced the Vatican "grateful" for the visit; the Vatican added-lest anyone forget-that the visit had been merely a "courtesy call." The visit leaves relations among all the churches of Christianity more genial than at any time since Luther. But within the Kirk there are hard feelings. The honorary treasurer of the Kirk of St. Andrews resigned his post in protest...
...Columbus, Ohio, hometown of that late and great satirist, ground was broken for the James Thurber shopping center and apartment development. Lest his fans think the whole idea was laughable, his widow said solemnly, "It is especially good that his name is connected with something growing-that is what he would appreciate more than anything else...