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...Amsterdam, Russia's champion chess team, playing without Grand Masters Mikhail Botvinnik and Vassily Smyslov, swept through the final round of an international tournament (which the U.S. did not enter because it "could not afford to send a team"), won nine of their other matches and drew one (with Israel), also took the Hamilton-Russell trophy for the second year...
Grand Master Samuel Reshevsky topped the Americans by holding Russia's Vassily Smyslov to four draws...
...Jack McGrath set a new record for the four-lap (ten miles) sprint of 141.033 m.p.h. Old (1952) record: 139.034 m.p.h., set by the late Chet Miller. ¶ In Moscow, World Champion Chess Player Mikhail Botvinnik, 43, retained his title after a long (24 games) match with Challenger Vassily Smyslov...
...group of advisers, and a watchful, poker-faced man listed as a state supervisor. Outnumbered, but seldom outmaneuvered, Polish-born Sam Reshevsky put up a game fight. At the double round-robin tournament's halfway mark, he was in the No. 2 spot, behind Russia's Vassily Smyslov, a 32-year-old language student from Moscow...
...winner, 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...