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...midst of a tense, 24-game match for the world's chess championship were Mikhail Botvinnik, 48, who has held the title since 1948 with one year's lapse and Challenger Mikhail Tal, 23. As the competition developed, the conflict of their personalities became more important than their technical skills...
Brash, hawk-nosed Challenger Tal is Botvinnik's exact opposite. A graduate of the philology department at the Latvian State University in Riga, he has made chess his profession; when he is not playing the game he is writing about "it in a Riga chess journal, which he edits. During a game, he makes his moves swiftly. Between moves, he circles endlessly around the table. Then, as though in response to an electric brain-flash, he stops in his tracks, hovers over the board, and, when his turn comes, swoops down like a hawk on the piece he intends...
...eight months since he succeeded Rex Harrison as Professor Iggins in My Fair Lady built a circle of friends that included an impressive share of the café-society beauties in Manhattan, got engaged to an out-of-towner. The bride-to-be: sultry Sara Tal, Miss Israel...
...Adlai Stevenson needs Herman Tal madge or vice versa, we need neither of them. Sometimes I think Lincoln should have let the South...
...with a powerful chest and wide shoulders, he walks with the stiff gait of a Bavarian peasant. His eyes are small and blue, and his head is square and massive, with thick, dark blond hair. "He has the manners of the Munich Tal," says Free Democrat Leader Thomas Dehler (the Tal is Munich's slum district). But inside Franz Josef Strauss's square head is a fast-thinking brain gifted with a photographic memory. His bachelor apartment near Bonn, his office and his automobile are jampacked with books, which he reads voraciously and from which he can often...