Word: neuropsychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took no unnecessary risks. To give advice, they provided Karpov with a cadre of talented seconds. To ensure his privacy, they dispatched a crew of grim-faced security men, led by a cigar-chomping ex-KGB prosecutor. As its ultimate weapon, Moscow also sent along Dr. Vladimir Zoukhar, a neuropsychologist who is reputedly an expert in hypnosis...
During early games, Karpov's neuropsychologist Zoukhar had sat in the front row of Baguio City's new amphitheater, staring disconcertingly at the challenger. After Korchnoi demanded that the doctor be expelled for trying to "hypnotize" him from a distance, officials ordered Zoukhar to sit in the back of the hall. To little avail. After 17 games, Karpov had built up a commanding 4-to-l lead...
...supported himself by working part time in a button-dyeing factory. After graduation he became assistant conductor at Mannes at a salary of $35 a month. "We used to turn in the milk bottles so he would have enough money to go to work," remembers his wife Rita. A neuropsychologist, she raised their two daughters (now married) and Son Anthony, 14, more or less on the side, while going to college and pursuing her own career...