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Fischer's idea of a big evening is secluding himself in a hotel room and ?slam! crash! chop!?working out a new king's side attack. He always requests a room without a view lest he be distracted from the game. If he ventures out, he always takes his trusty leather pocket set with him. On elevators, in taxis, between dinner courses?he is always at it, busily fiddling away like some old crone at her knitting. "Why should I bother with anything else?" he asks. "Chess is my profession...
...Slam! Chop! From that day on, Fischer has been a man possessed. Needing to place only sixth or better at the interzonal tournament in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, to qualify for the next round of the world championship, he not only won by a wide margin but swept his last seven games in a row. That advanced him to a match against veteran Soviet Grand Master Mark Taimanov in Vancouver last year. Fischer defeated him in six straight games. Then, last July in Denver, Fischer took on Denmark's Bent Larsen, ranked second only to Bobby in the West...
...Open was not so much Lee Trevino's narrow victory, but Jack Nicklaus' slender loss. Nicklaus had already won the Masters at Augusta, Ga., and the U.S. Open and had set his sights on this tournament and the upcoming P.G.A. in a bid for an unprecedented grand slam of professional golf...
Halting Trading. Far from calming the markets, the British move set off a stampede of speculation that within hours forced currency markets in Europe and Japan to slam shut their exchange windows; they were not scheduled to open again until Tuesday of this week. The dollar, which most money traders consider to be the weakest currency after the pound because of the gigantic U.S. balance of payments deficit, quickly came under attack. The West German Bundesbank had to buy almost $900 million in 90 frenzied minutes Friday morning before officials finally halted trading. In Switzerland, monetary authorities decided...
...aircraft are angled back, he says, another aerodynamic factor comes increasingly into play. At supersonic speeds, the swept back wings create noticeable pressure on each other; Jones likens the interference effect to that created when two motorboats speed alongside each other and waves from the bow of one boat slam into the hull of the other. When the wing is pivoted in the Jones design, however, such interference is reduced, just as when one of the boats pulls ahead of the other. Moreover, the aircraft's efficiency is further improved by simultaneously rotating the tail plane to the same...