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...World Champion Vladimir Kovalev, like Countryman Zaitsev, is fast, strong and sure, if a bit wooden. East Germany's Jan Hoffmann is a methodical craftsman, usually not daring enough to take chances but steady enough to walk over those who risk and fall short. Tickner, 26, whose turn in the round-robin of world champions came in 1978, is like a sophisticated Broadway chorus dancer who can give you the big moves but takes particular delight in demonstrating the fun and precision of a few simple tap steps...
There are also some lessons the U.S. can learn that here are also some lessons the U.S. can learn that might help keep future Third World revolutions from taking an anti-American turn. First, suggests Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard professor of government, the U.S. should stop focusing exclusively on the struggle between the U.S. and Communism and pay more attention to the aspirations of nations that have no desire for alliance with either side...
...Says Hoffmann: "To me, the biggest meaning of Iran is that it is the first major international crisis that is not an East-West crisis, and for that very reason we find ourselves much less able to react. There is very little attention given to the problems of revolutionary instability and internal discontent. Americans don't study any of this, and when such events happen, we are caught by surprise...
...actors pop them to relieve stage fright. Lonely housewives rely on them to get through empty days, and narcotics addicts use them to counter withdrawal symptoms. Valium, the ubiquitous tranquilizer that has been on the market for 17 years, has also benefited its developer, Switzerland's F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. It remains the world's largest selling prescription drug; in the U.S., which accounts for some 40% of Roche's $1.4 billion pharmaceutical sales, doctors write 44 million prescriptions for it each year...
Valium's maker was founded in 1896 by Fritz Hoffmann, a Basel marketing whiz whose first commercial success was a cough syrup. Though the firm became the first to synthesize vitamins, among other feats, it was the development of Valium and Librium in the early 1960s that made it a leading pharmaceutical company. While the secretive Roche has 122 facilities around the world, it did not publish its first consolidated account until 1974. The firm is publicly owned, but its chief stockholders are mostly wealthy descendants of the founders or early executives who rarely trade their gilt-edged shares...