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...15th game proved a refreshing respite from the week's extracurricular infighting. Fischer, playing black, again fell behind in the early going. Then, beginning with a daring pawn sacrifice on his 28th move, he engaged Spassky in a furious battle that equalized their forces. Playing brilliantly under fire, Spassky countered with a checkmating threat that after 43 moves forced each player to accept one-half point for a draw. That gave Fischer a 9-6 lead (he needs 12½ points to win the match, Spassky needs 12) and led Arpad Elo, official statistician for the World Chess Federation...
...Highway 19, between Pleiku and the coastal town of Qui Nhon, and inflicted heavy losses on a South Korean division that tried to reopen the road. But the North Vietnamese were also suffering heavily in this section from American bombings; B-52 raids inflicted enormous casualties on the NVA 28th regiment...
...SECOND SHOW began sometime around 10:30 p.m. Outside New York's Madison Square Garden on a windy and cold January 28th, some four thousand people waited to press into the Felt Forum as some five thousand piled out. The big yellow neon board billed "Yevtushenko" and, under his name, "Camper and Trailer Show." This was the second performance of the largest poetry reading anyone had ever attempted to stage in America...
Howard, Harvard's semi-final opponent on the 28th in Miami, is an exceptional team composed completely of freshmen and sophomores, all of whom are from outside the U.S. Last year, Howard played in the national semi-finals against UCLA. Leading the Bruins, 3-2. with 15 minutes to go, the Bisons wilted under pressure and dropped a 4-3 decision...
Among the other Harvard runners were sophomore Mike Bernick, who finished 28th at 30:23; junior Dan Eddy, who finished 33rd; and sophomore Raphael Jones, who finished 35th...