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...Amsterdam, Russia's champion chess team, playing without Grand Masters Mikhail Botvinnik and Vassily Smyslov, swept through the final round of an international tournament (which the U.S. did not enter because it "could not afford to send a team"), won nine of their other matches and drew one (with Israel), also took the Hamilton-Russell trophy for the second year...
Feodor's mission is psychological tug-of-warfare with Mikhail Gorin, an old and honored writer who godfathered the revolution back in Czarist days, but refuses to toady to Stalin. Gorin, the titan of the title, is intentionally modeled on Russia's late great writer, Maxim Gorky, and in chronicling his fall Author Gouzenko stages scenes with other Russian VIPs, e.g., Stalin, Malenkov, Beria (who wears the name Veria, plus the identifying pince...
...Olympic Record Holder Sim Iness. ¶At Indianapolis, qualifying for the Memorial Day 500-miler, Jack McGrath set a new record for the four-lap (ten miles) sprint of 141.033 m.p.h. Old (1952) record: 139.034 m.p.h., set by the late Chet Miller. ¶ In Moscow, World Champion Chess Player Mikhail Botvinnik, 43, retained his title after a long (24 games) match with Challenger Vassily Smyslov...
...that it had mapped the bottom of the frozen Arctic Ocean. Main feature: a mountain range up to 10,000 ft. high that runs submerged from northern Greenland to the New Siberian Islands (see map). The Soviet scientists named it the Lomonosov Range in honor of Russian Poet-Scientist Mikhail Vassi-lievich Lomonosov...
Three months ago, Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Sergeev arrived in Athens bubbling gracious compliments in fluent Greek. The first Soviet ambassador to Athens since 1947, Sergeev had a tough assignment: to dispel the bitterness against Soviet Russia that still lingers from the Communists' bloody, two-yearlong civil war (1947-49) against the Greek government...