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...life"), and the results of this continuing affliction emerge annually as the Baseball Abstract. Though less compelling than some of its nine predecessors, this year's version includes some refreshing observations on the overrating of the Cardinals' rookie outfielder, Vince Coleman, a long and brilliant account of the managerial chess game played at the 1985 world series, and a mordant treatise on the beloved and blinkered manager Chuck Tanner, who somehow failed to notice that his Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse had turned into a drug den (beat reporters, please copy...
...pressure from the U.S. to help reunite 38 divided families. At an international conference on human rights in Bern, Soviet delegates informed their American counterparts that 117 Soviet citizens who have relatives in the U.S. would be permitted to join them. In addition, Boris Gulko, a former national chess champion who applied seven years ago to emigrate to Israel, finally received permission and flew to Vienna. Such gestures may temporarily deflect criticism of the way the Soviet Union treats dissenters. But nothing would accomplish that goal so effectively as giving Sakharov and his wife a chance to spend the rest...
Though their company is highly visible, the Saatchi brothers seldom speak to journalists and almost never pose for photographs. The reclusive Charles drives to his office each day accompanied only by his pet Schnauzer and often spends his lunch break playing chess. "Clients never meet him, and most employees wouldn't recognize him," says one former colleague. He and his wife Doris spend much of their spare time amassing a noted collection of modern...
...Polgars are controversial in Hungary, where the game is extremely popular. Susan was at one time dropped from the national team because of feuds with chess authorities, and Laszlo has fought to keep his daughters from being | limited to playing in women's tournaments. Has their father made pawns of them? Do the girls feel deprived by the regimentation? "No," says Susan. "We don't feel that we have missed out on anything." She pauses, her eyes veiled reflectively: "To win is the reward." Check...
...Ghana, man of the world, a portly, elegant, globe-trotting charmer who seems to awe those who encounter him. "A very intelligent, cultured man," gushed one American admirer. "He knows every opera and can recognize a symphony from just a couple of notes. He is a nationally ranked chess player. He speaks nine languages." He is also, say authorities, a world-class swindler...