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...profits are also helped by Sweden's fast tax-amortization laws. From the day the contract was let for the $10 million ship, SAL could start writing off 20% of her cost. Furthermore, Swedish shipping unions demand less than half the American scale, though the country's sailors are still the highest-paid in Europe. They also get outside double rooms and their own swimming pool on cruises...
Last week, in the President Perón Salón of Buenos Aires' Postal Savings Building, Miguel Najdorf again sat facing stone-faced Sammy Reshevsky. Sipping coffee brewed under exquisite precautions against doping, Najdorf nonetheless seemed in the worst shape ever. Perspiring and twitching, wringing his shaky hands, frantically rumpling his hair, he leaped up after nearly every move to dash into the men's room, situated next to him as demanded by his strict terms. Once, while nearly 1,000 chess fans watched and chuckled, Najdorf soared from his chair as if it were...
...length of the long wall in the Hotel Continental's banquet room. My friend and I sat at a corner table with John C. carr, state party chairman. An orchestra-a drum, piano, and saxophone-played continuos dinner music including How Much is That Dog in the Window, Frivolous Sal-and at McMcnimen's request, Your Nobody Till Somebody Loves...
Then, just when other pitchers were tempted to abandon Hannie's heady stuff, Hannie got his control back. With a curve he learned from Giant Pitcher Sal Maglie, he began whiffing one batter after another. Hannie pitched one no-hitter, two shutouts. The other pitchers kept trying to toss American style, and some improved. But last week, at season's end, none was even close to Hannie's new-found effectiveness. With an average of twelve strikeouts a game, and two international victories (over England and Belgium) to his credit. Pitcher Urbanus hurled his undefeated O.V.V.O. team...
...what a formidable surprise!" says Transcriber Paul Fleuriot de Langle. The papers comprise a diary which records Napoleon's conversations throughout the exile, and a regular summary of daily court life. But everything was written in a private shorthand of hieroglyphic complexity, e.g., "N.a. j. et. d. sa. sal. de bil une Ba; il. dde au Gm. sil sa. ce. q. c'e. C'une ma. de G. il d. dab. q. cest un bal. p. ses enf. Est ce p. ser. a desc. sur un remp...