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...After two months of chess, during which both contestants begged off for occasional bed rest, Challenger Mikhail Botvinnik demonstrated the intellectual stamina of a champion. Sticking stubbornly to the defensive strategy that experts insisted he was constitutionally incapable of using, Botvinnik, 46, strung out the 23rd game of the tournament until World Champion Vasily Smyslov, 37, broke under the strain. Rather than resume the adjourned game, Smyslov offered a draw by telephone. This gave Botvinnik half a point and the match, 12½-10½. Thus, without even the satisfaction of a handshake, Botvinnik regained the title that he lost...
...assure Russia that it was more than a propaganda trick or a play for headlines, the U.S. engaged in the highest form of diplomacy: it told Soviet diplomats about the plan in advance and in secret. In Washington John Foster Dulles called in Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov (whose reaction, said Dulles later, was "not exactly heart-warming"), and in New York Henry Cabot Lodge went up to the Park Avenue residence of Soviet Delegate Arkady A. Sobolev to outline the U.S. offer privately...
...front sat Khrushchev, with Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan beside him whispering in his ear; next, to their right, sat Party Secretaries Alexei Kirichenko and Mikhail Suslov...
...Five-Year-Planner Mikhail Pervukhin, who voted against Khrushchev during last June's leadership showdown, was shipped off even before the elections to be Soviet Ambassador to East Germany. Question for Premier Bulganin, who also guessed wrong last summer: If one nomination meant East Germany, what did 15 portend...
Smyslov, and his countryman, Mikhail Botvinnik...