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...living in 18 communities scattered from New England to Indiana. Today the sect is virtually extinct, since Mother Ann regarded sex as a device of the devil and Shaker "brothers" and "sisters" lived in separate dormitories. Their only mutual recreation was prayer meetings, at which they sang hymns and "shook" together in frenzied dances that must have looked like Saturday night at the Electric Circus...
Grandmasters covering the matches on TV and radio shook their heads. "As in any sport," said one authority, "age is the single most important factor in chess. At 32, Spassky is able to maintain that slight edge of sharpness that makes the difference at the very summit." Petrosian, visibly weary from the two-month grind, fell farther behind and eventually lost by a score of 12½ to 10½. One morning last week, the two contenders met at the Moscow Chess Club to sign a document that signified Spassky was the new world champion. It was Petrosian...
...bare room. "Tell me to stop when you think I'm too close." He moved forward a pace. "Here?" Another step. "Here?" The subject, an inmate of the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., and a man with a long history of violence, shook his head. But as Kinzel continued his advance, the prisoner's hands clenched into fists and he backed off, like someone gearing for attack. It was almost as if he felt himself inside an invisible circle into which no one, not even an unthreatening psychiatrist, could safely intrude...
First, Penn whipped the fencing team, 19-8. Harvard is not a fencing power, but neither is Penn, and the score was very unacceptable. Coach Edo Marion just shook his head. "It was very disappointing and unexpected," he said. "Even the Penn coach came up to me afterwards and said he couldn't believe the score was so lopsided," Marion added. It was the first time that season that Harvard had lost all three weapons...
...each class called a meeting in open defiance of President Quincy. A vote for a general strike and open disruption of the University was taken. The motion shook the passions of the students, as it resolved: "a black flag [of rebellion] be raised before tomorrow morning on some of the college buildings--that the whole college dance around the rebellion tree tomorrow morning--that no prayers or recitations be attended until these grievances be redressed." The motion was carried in the Junior and Freshman Class meetings, but before the meetings were dismissed word had been passed down throughout the seniors...