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Senior Master Edmar Mednis' How to Beat Bobby Fischer is a detailed anatomical study of an Achilles' heel. The Achilles is Fischer, the winningest chess master in history; of the 576 games he has played since he became U.S. champion at the incredible age of 14, he has...
Despite Durocher's strong statistics Captain Randy Roth said yesterday that he is by no means awed. "I saw him against B.C. and he looked a little shaky. He certainly isn't any Ed Walsh and if B.U. has a weakness I'd say it was in goal," he said...
Tugs and Pulls. Another destabilizing element is China's radicals, who, despite the apparent strength of Chou and his fellow moderates, have unexpectedly surged to power before and could do so again. "These things in China have never been total and final victories," says Ezra Vogel, director of Harvard...
One woman developed infantile anger when her pilot husband was killed-she had loved the "strong" pilot and could not accept his "weakness" in getting killed. Another pattern among war widows was guilt for embarrassing friends by "forcing" them to express sympathy.
Some Kremlin watchers are not so sure. British Sovietologist Leopold Labedz contends that any Brezhnev illness would be bound to touch off a power struggle in the Kremlin, if only because the Russians have never solved the problem of how to transfer authority in an orderly succession. According to this...