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...earth reverses itself. North changes to South, and topsy metamorphoses into turvy. In a sense, that is what happened in Reykjavik when Bobby Fischer last week took the world chess title from Boris Spassky. Russia, chess master to the world for a generation, has been abruptly undone by an upstart. The U.S.S.R. has long instructed its citizens that in chess (as in all things) their strength was the strength of ten because their hearts were pure, their Lenin clean. Americans, by contrast, scoffed at the game as one for myopic children and old men on park benches...
...Previn can no longer be dismissed as a Hollywood upstart from the wrong side of the sound tracks. At the piano, in jazz or in Brahms, his playing is fluid and sparkling with character, although he often seems restrained, as if afraid of damaging the keys. His podium manner is similarly unshowman-like-self-effacing, in fact-but his sure beat, his quest for clarity of sound and shape, have reaffirmed the L.S.O. as one of the world's best orchestras...
...regime. Sato favored Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, 67, for party president and Premier, and the L.D.P.'s brusque rejection of his protege at a convention in downtown Tokyo's big Hibiya Hall last week was the final shokku. Sato nearly wept as Fukuda was trounced by the upstart millionaire, 282 to 190, in a second-ballot runoff...
Assessing this opportunity cost is difficult, since it turns on a comparison of the average return on the University's $1,244 billion portfolio investment, treckoned in the April edition of Upstart at an annual average of 6.5 per cent for the last ten years, and some "standard," "fair" return on market speculation. (Disheartening as it may be for investment analysts, a recent study at the University of Chicago conclues that a portfolio of stocks purchased randomly returned slightly more than 9 per cent. A regular savings account at the Harvard Trust will earn you about 5 per cent...
...poor performances weren't punishment enough, the Crimson, courtesy of the Harvard Athletic Department, embarked after the finals on the projected 10-hour trek. Fourteen and one-half hours and an upstart New Jersey snowstorm later, Harvard unloaded in Cambridge. The trip was enough to boggle any mind...