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Harvard toes off with eight other teams October 14 at the 13th annual Eastern College Athletic Conference golf finals in Cooperstown...
...toast from the 13th Earl of Gurney: "To England, this teeming womb of privilege." His luncheon companions, each a member of the House of Lords, raise their glasses in solemn salute. Later, at home, his manservant Tucker (Arthur Lowe) offers the earl (Harry Andrews) his evening whisky and a selection of nooses on a silver salver. "May I suggest the silk, sir?" Tucker says respectfully. The earl accepts, and begins his evening ritual, first stripping to his long underwear, then donning a regimental uniform jacket and a white ballet skirt, and finally stringing himself up for a harmless little swing...
Died. Baron Magnus von Braun, 94, former German official and father of Rocketman Wernher von Braun; in Oberaudorf, West Germany. The descendant of Prussian nobility whose genealogy reaches back to the 13th century, the baron served as press spokesman for both Kaiser Wilhelm II and the revolving-door governments of the early Weimar Republic. In 1932 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture by Chancellor Franz von Papen but retired from public life the following year when Hitler came to power...
Hard Labor. Even Communist Yugoslavia now has a string of nudist camps along the Adriatic Coast for the benefit of foreign tourists. Earlier this month it also played host to the 13th World Congress of Naturalists, though not without a bit of embarrassment. The Croatian Minister for Tourism angrily canceled an appearance at the congress when informed that he was expected to show up in the buff...
Spassky found that out soon enough in the 13th game. Apparently surprised by Fischer's Alekhine defense, a variation the challenger rarely plays, Spassky faltered in the early going and Bobby seized and held the initiative until the game was adjourned after 41 moves. After a long night of analyzing the position, the two players resumed play the next day in the most harrowing, hard-fought encounter in the match so far. Though behind, Spassky repeatedly countered the menace of Fischer's advancing pawns with some brilliantly conceived threats of his own. Finally, however, after 74 moves...