Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before he plays a match with a Westerner, Russia's World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik goes into training with war-game thoroughness, e.g., his seconds blow clouds of cigar smoke in his face and turn up the radio to a blare. Last week at Zurich, in a smoke-filled (but quiet) room, nine Russian chess experts and six other challengers from abroad, including the U.S.'s five-time champion, little (5 ft. 2 in.) Samuel Reshevsky, met to challenge Russia's mighty Mikhail for the world title...
...Vassily Smyslov, made generous acknowledgment of Reshevsky's skill: "He is the greatest player of the West-a tough little man full of brilliant ideas." Then Smyslov went back to Moscow, back into training for Champion Botvinnik, who no longer has to worry about radio blare and cigar smoke. In Russia, during chess matches, smoke and talk are forbidden...
...would hardly ever go boating without making at least one lowerclassman walk the plank. Faced with a faculty frown ("Hand up the girl who burnt down the East Wing last night"), she can look angelic; but occasionally she must pay for her crimes by writing lines ("I must not smoke cigars during prayers. I must not smoke cigars during...
...rules for the new order, which they hope will be approved officially by the bishop and later by Rome. Members must take the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, plus a fourth pledge: to bury the dead. Brothers must shave their heads and wear full-length beards, never smoke, drink wine or eat meat, and never leave their cemetery except for necessity. Postulants must serve a six-month trial period before becoming novices, and must remain novices for two years before being accepted as members of the community. "We are the mystic dead," explains Hilarion. "Not everyone can stand...
...strikers wanted an hourly wage boost of 26? (to $2.10 an hour) in line with wages in the auto industry, plus such fringe benefits as higher pensions (to $66 a month), more severance pay and the right to smoke on the job. North American offered a few new fringe benefits (additional group insurance, a 2?-an-hour cost-of-living allowance) and a pay boost averaging 8? an hour. Paul Schrade, 28-year-old Yaleman and president of U.A.W. Local 887, Los Angeles, said that "the company refuses to negotiate." Answered North American's white-thatched Chairman...