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Word: locomotiv (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...medal For Valiant Labor, Spassky lives in a modern Moscow high-rise with his second wife Larisa, who is an engineer, and their son. Of his first wife he says: "We were like bishops of opposite color." His $500 monthly income from exhibition matches and as chess coach of Locomotiv, a railway-union sports club, is one of the highest in the Soviet Union. Despite these rewards, Spassky has refused to join the Communist Party. "If Boris were a writer or a composer," says one grand master from an Iron Curtain country, "he'd be in jail for anti-Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle of the Brains | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

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