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...first 16 moves, Fischer and Spassky duplicated a game played in 1936 between World Champion José Capablanca and Swedish Grand Master Gideon Stahlberg. Then Spassky, playing black, deviated and skillfully held off Fischer until both players agreed to call the game a draw after 55 moves. Before the 13th game, Fischer began complaining about the air-conditioning and the autograph hounds. Because of what he called "excessive spectator noise" in the playing hall, he demanded that the first seven rows of seats be left empty. Fischer, the Bobby watchers were quick to note, had again become his old surly...
...John Kennedy. Four years later he worked to help re-elect Lyndon Johnson. In 1968 he was out on the streets for Robert Kennedy. In this campaign, George McGovern was his man. Working out of shabby walk-up headquarters, he and other McGovern amateurs canvassed Brooklyn's 13th District to saturation, blanketed the neighborhoods from Kings Highway to Coney Island with pamphlets and, on New York's primary day last month, swept into party power, defeating one of New York's more redoubtable Democratic bosses in the process. So this week Kenneth Elstein comes to Miami Beach...
...world a Coke") and another for Alka-Seltzer ("Try it, you'll like it"). Coke, coincidentally, won an Effie (for marketing moxie) and Alka-Seltzer a CLIO (for performance) from the admen themselves. The industry's own awards were also announced last week at the 13th annual American Television and Radio Commercials Festival in Manhattan. Will CROC have any effect? Probably not. All it offers the viewer is vicarious and considerable pleasure: to squeeze-or strangle-Mr. Whipple...
...took centuries more for the church to condemn witchcraft and magic as exclusive tools of the Devil; persecution did not begin in earnest until the 13th century. By then much of the residual paganism had died out, and at least some of the witchcraft and magic had turned more sinister. The spirits now invoked for aid were demons; the pact was with the Devil. So at least the Dominican inquisitors saw it, and so many suspects admitted...
Since there is virtually no check on speculators, denudations occur that would turn an American slumlord's hair white with envy. An example: one night some trucks drove up to a little 13th century church standing on a valuable plot of land in the middle of Salerno. The drivers attached chains to the frail walls and then pulled away. The building simply collapsed. There was some mild protest from the Bishop of Salerno, but, as Journalist Sorrentino acidly recounted, "the land where now you can see a hideous new building was worth, and fetched...