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...other children there. But prodigies were scarce that year; so Bobby ignored his peers, later joined other clubs and began haunting the chess tables in the parks, "crushing all these old guys." At twelve, he had mastered enough Russian to read his monthly copy of Shakhmaty v S.S.S.R. and pore over the games it reported. "I had heard the Russians were the best," he says, "and I wanted to be the best...
...impossible for ordinary consumers to know whether increases on the products they buy are legal or not. Indeed, added a top official of the Internal Revenue Service, the widely displayed invitations for customers to inspect "base price lists" are "largely psychological." Customers who take the trouble to pore through a store's all-but-unintelligible price lists still have no way of knowing whether any single price increase conforms to Phase II guidelines...
There is indeed more folksiness than foppery in the offstage Doc (real name: Carl). He lives in New Jersey on a 65-acre spread called Harmony Farms, where he likes to slop around in faded jeans and a five-gallon hat and pore over books on the bloodlines of his twelve race and show horses. After his weekday stints on TV, Doc, a teetotaler, tries as often as possible to drive home at 8:30 for dinner...
Tomes for tots are still dominated by the Art Director Look. What small children love best is plenty of handsomely presented visual detail, so that they can pore over a book again and again. What they keep getting is sweeping, uncluttered spreads in yummy pastels, or Neanderthal collages depicting, say, one mouse, two frogs and a lily pad, accompanied by perhaps seven fatuous words per page. Pleasant enough, but nothing in it to justify the price or keep the mind alive, even for a single rereading...
...result is easily the most stimulating atmosphere of any East-bloc country. But even Hungary is demoralized by the housing shortage that plagues all of Eastern Europe; 47% of the Hungarian population is crammed into one-room dwellings. Still, executive suites in Hungary hum with excitement as managers pore over computer printouts, circling moneymaking products in green, average earners in yellow, and losers in red. Collective farms operate small handcraft industries. Budapest's fashionable Váci Utca, now closed to auto traffic, is packed with shoppers who stroll past well-stocked jewelry shops, delicatessens, bookstores...