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...There is peace on his face but malice in his heart." That was how Pravda characterized Chinese Communist Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, whose state visits to Yugoslavia and Rumania last summer sparked the current round of denunciations. Last week the Soviet defense ministry newspaper Red Star declared that "Mao's heirs continue talking about the inevitability of another world war in order to justify extremely dangerous practical actions, namely, Peking's persistent efforts to stop the process of detente." Red Star expressed horror at "China's worship, close to religious ecstasy...
Korchnoi's retinue was equally diverse. It included two young chess experts from England, an Austrian woman who reportedly had spent ten years in a Siberian prison after being convicted of spying for the U.S., and a young Belgian, known only as "Rasputin," whose job was to ward off Zoukhar's "evil eye." A former Soviet grand master who defected to the West two years ago, leaving his wife and son behind, Korchnoi was prepared for all of Moscow's ploys. So unnerving was the prospect of a Korchnoi victory to the Soviet press that it avoided...
...Navarro's presence has not proved a magical elixir to the win-thirsty Tigers whose record on the eve of today's contest with the Crimson is 1-3-1. Navarro has been trying to implement the much-vaunted veer offense at Princeton and the fifteen starters returning from last year's team have been sorely taxed to memorize the new series...
...fact, Wabash was little more than a sleepy hoosier hamlet whose forefathers picked up the town name from the local Indians. The Indians called it Ouabouigou, which means "shining white." Fittingly enough, in 1880 Wabash became the first town in the world to install electric street lights. An uninspired Ezra Pound pined away on the Wabash faculty until he was dismissed after allowing a destitute woman of ill repute to spend a night in his room, an act which offended the straightlaced morals of the town...
Krueger is also a former professor, whose specialty is Shakespearean literature. He quickly climbed the success ladder at Duke University to become dean of arts and sciences, just as he has scaled it in Texas politics. And he makes no bones about the fact that he wants to be President someday. Bob Krueger, to say the least, is an ambitious...