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...Eastern game-in which, according to legend, the chessmen were prisoners of war, and once taken, were beheaded-the Soviet game employed beauteous ballerinas and assorted other troupers, each of whom, upon being captured, put on a performance. So distracting, in fact, was the circus atmosphere (the show stopper: a satirical song that went, "Kings get five-room apartments Knights get single rooms And pawns get nothing at all") that peerless Grand Master Botvinnik could do no better than a draw...
...Lvov, Russia, the theater management had to turn off the lights before the audience stopped demanding encores. And in Moscow, the audience shouted "March, march, American march!" at concert's end, clamoring for the stirring piece of U.S. music that had been the Eastman's show stopper in other cities. The march: John Philip Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever...
...most startling exhibit was put up by the Redemptorist Fathers: a stuffed anaconda from the jungles of Brazil, where the congregation operates missions. "It's a great crowd-stopper," explained Father John Morton, who takes the 20-ft. serpent with him on his cross-country pursuits of vocations. "Everybody has a gimmick. This is mine...
...spokesman said the derailment occured when the train went through a red light, setting off an automatic stopper which jolted the front car from the tracks. Workmen replaced the car on the tracks by mid-afternoon...
...meat proteins and fried foods) to strengthen his throwing-even while working as an off-season customers' man on Wall Street. He has never won 20 games in a season, partly because the Yankees pulled him out of the regular pitching rotation to use him as a "stopper" in the big games. In 1960 he had his worst year, 12-9, although he redeemed himself with two shutouts against Pittsburgh in the World Series...