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...Hockey fever has led to a surge in the construction of rinks. In 1967, the year the N.H.L. created an expansion team in St. Louis, there were six rinks there. Now the city has twelve indoor and six outdoor rinks. Ben Schaffer, an administrator with the Essex County, N.J., park commission, says that the county has five rinks. "Five years ago," adds Schaffer, "there weren't even five rinks in the whole state." The demand is not slackening. Barry Wolkon, who has just opened a $3 million, two-rink complex in New York's Rockland County, says...
...book's most celebrated contributor is Winston Cliurchill (a clever politician-journalist-historian), who in one variant of history did not die of prison fever during the Boer War, but went on to become a heroic brandy drinker and Prime Minister. With double irony in his title, Churchill speculates on what might have happened in If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg. After Lee's victory, Churchill notes, the Confederate general's brilliant stroke of freeing the slaves cut away the moral underpinning of the Union cause. Could Lee actually have forced such a measure...
Remember Fischer fever? Mild nausea, mottled fury, odd sensations of Russophilia, night sweats about poisoned pawns. Get set for a new and more severe epidemic. In 1972 the delirium was nourished by a prize fund of $250,000, twelve times greater than any previous chess purse. In 1975 the provender is grotesquely more substantial. Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov, the 23-year-old Russian challenger for the World Chess Championship, have been invited by the Philippine Islands to meet in Manila on June 1 and push little wooden soldiers round a checkered board for the second largest stakes...
...mere possibility of the match has reinduced Fischer fever in the U.S. publishing industry, which is currently flogging 15 new books about chess. Most of them are strictly for the professionals, but a few can be warmly recommended...
...risk Detroit is taking is that the public's car-buying fever will cool rapidly after March 1, when all the rebates will have ended. Moreover, says David Eisenberg, auto analyst at the Wall Street brokerage house of Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.: "If the programs are tremendously successful, it could well mean that Detroit is borrowing sales from future months." Eisenberg believes that if post-rebate results are disappointing, the automakers will probably have to cut prices permanently, even if that means they will have to swallow losses...