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Bromberg said he once lost to Viktor Korchnoi in a simultaneous exhibitition game, but drew two other Grandmasters. "When one of the world's greatest players criticizes your play with his moves, you kind of quake," he said. "It's as if Picasso were criticizing your painting, even if only for three minutes," he added...
While Westerners fretted about language difficulties and transportation, Soviet officialdom worried aloud about sinister influences. The chief of the Moscow City Communist Party, Politburo Member Viktor Grishin, said Muscovites should be cordial to visitors, but he exhorted them to "stress the advantages of the Soviet way of life ... and repulse the propaganda of alien ideas and principles...
...time with Tut's treasure are surely exaggerated, there is no denying that the excavation will yield important information on a particularly puzzling gap in the murky past of one of the crossroad regions of the world, a melting pot of ancient Mediterranean and Eastern cultures. Says Archaeologist Viktor I. Sarianidi, leader of the research team: "These discoveries fill that gap and we learn that there was no break in the development of the culture...
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines--Champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Viktor Korochnoi resumed their adjourned 24th game of the world chess championships for only eight minutes yesterday before agreeing to a draw...
...Vance's past trips to Moscow, he noted that his hosts performed a little power ploy: they seated him facing the sun. So when the Soviet delegation-including Gromyko, Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin and Veteran Interpreter Viktor Sukhodrev-arrived at the eighth-floor conference room of the U.S. SALT delegation office last Wednesday morning, Vance responded in kind. He guided the Russians to the side of the 25-ft.-long teak table that faced the windows, giving them a good view of the water-skiers cavorting on Lake Geneva, and of the sun. However, the American delegation-Vance, Ambassador Malcolm...