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...discussing how Mr. Goren was clever enough to break the rules on the particular deal where he defeated the opponents' four-spade contract by leading the nine of spades at trick 3 (from a K-9 trump holding), the article says: "Goren copped the trick with his lurking king, later brought home his king of diamonds to defeat the contract...
Egged on by spade-bearded Party Boss Walter Ulbricht, East German Communists have recently been tightening the screws on intellectuals and the professions. In the universities, stooge students were assigned to classes and lectures to make certain that teachers spouted the party line. Doctors and dentists were exhorted to become "medical activists," warned that all private practice would be destroyed so that they could devote full time to serving "people's medical establishments." The result: in eight months 813 doctors, 2,393 teachers and about 200 professors-including the rector of the University of Jena (TIME, Sept. 1)-fled...
Both Britain and Israel are long inhabited lands whose soil is steeped in legend and salted with ancient relics. In both, the drama of the past waits only the educated spade of the archaeologist...
...home of Shoe Manufacturer Samuel Hurst, "a spade was a spade was a spade." Young Fannie was troubled by being fat, by being Jewish, above all by Mama, who was (as Author Hurst shows her in a striking portrait) vulgar, loud, socially ambitious, a woman young Fannie had to love and also had to get away from at any cost...
...worrier, and shows it. No. 6 in master points with 3,849^, Roth "suffers from being a bit of a genius," according to one fellow expert. With his explosive partner Tobias Stone, he devised some widely used bidding innovations, including the "preempt overcall" (e.g., North, one diamond; East, two spades) to show a single strong suit with little side strength, and the "unusual no trump" (e.g., North, one spade; East, pass; South, two spades; West, two no trump) asking partner to bid his better minor suit. Says Roth on bidding: "I am a revolutionary...