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...Scott Clark lost to Ole Miss' Kristopher Stahlberg...
...twelfth game was a shocker of a different sort. For the first 16 moves, Fischer and Spassky duplicated a game played in 1936 between World Champion José Capablanca and Swedish Grand Master Gideon Stahlberg. Then Spassky, playing black, deviated and skillfully held off Fischer until both players agreed to call the game a draw after 55 moves. Before the 13th game, Fischer began complaining about the air-conditioning and the autograph hounds. Because of what he called "excessive spectator noise" in the playing hall, he demanded that the first seven rows of seats be left empty. Fischer, the Bobby...
Died. Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, 87, "the George Washington of Finland," who fought for independence from Russia, became its first President (1919-25); in Helsinki...
...first President after the Republic was established five months later, if he had not kept clamoring for war against the Bolsheviki and vengeance against the Reds still in prison. Finland was tired of war, sick of vengeance. On a platform of amnesty for the Reds, Professor K. J. Stahlberg was elected President by 143 Parliamentary votes to 50 for General Mannerheim. The hard-bitten soldier (he was 52 then) retired to Louhisaari, to be heard from often again...
Crusty but popular President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, 76, described himself as "a worn out old cart" when his followers recently insisted that he stand for reelection. Last week the Electoral Assembly of 300 passed over the "Old Cart" and by just one vote failed to elect Jurist Kaarlo Stahlberg who was the Finnish Republic's first elected President in 1919-25 and today is supposed to stand for drawing Finland into closer relations with the Soviet Union. On the second ballot, Agrarian Party Leader Kyosti Kallio, the only man who has been uninterruptedly elected a Finnish Legislator since...