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...Iceland, a relaxed and happy Bobby Fischer feasted on suckling pig, sipped a sinister-sounding potion called Viking's Blood, danced with a pretty blonde named Anna Thorsteinsdottir, and uncharacteristically arrived ten minutes early for a meeting with Iceland's President Kristján Eldjárn. The world chess champion's chief worry, in fact, was how severely lawsuits would deplete the $154,687.50 purse he won for trouncing Russia's Boris Spassky. No matter. With offers flooding in (endorsements, book rights, exhibitions), Bobby's possible earnings could easily...
...Bibliophile. Examination of the daily news summary tends to substantiate the staff's contention that it gives the President-referred to as RN in the digest-the bitter with the sweet. Last week, for instance, it contained the caustic appraisals of Vice President Spiro Agnew that came in response to Agnew's attack on the McGovern-Hatfield end-the-war amendment. It also took note of Senator Edward Kennedy's statement that he was "shocked and disappointed" by the Nixon decision to retain quotas on oil imports...
...briskly busy young men whose discreet, deliberate, disciplined manner accurately reflects the image of the Boss. The President is seldom seen by the press. The "Beaver Patrol"-the title given to the assistants of Presidential Aide H. R. Haldeman-scurry around with the Nixon orders and the memos signed RN. Working in the oval office, the Lincoln Room, or a new hideaway in the Executive Office Building, Nixon keeps ceremony to a bare minimum and makes sure that there are few official appointments to disrupt his organized days. After six months in office, say those closest...
...Eastern Europe was edgy-and unsure of exactly what lay ahead. Despite their studied nonchalance, the Czechoslovak people pressed their leaders hard not to compromise. Thousands of them lined up to sign copies of a manifesto, written by Playwright Pavel Kohout and printed in the journal Literární Listy, which exhorted the leaders to "act, explain and unanimously defend the way that we have entered and do not in tend to leave while we live." Along with the manifesto, the journal's editors ran a cartoon showing a gargantuan figure of Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev frantically...
...hurting in first. The Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox are assigned to the league's western division, along with two expansion teams - in Kansas City and Seattle - and the lackluster Oakland Athletics and California Angels. They will play 21 fewer home games against the more attractive easte:rn teams - Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, New York and Washington - and the loss of those games is likely to be reflected in gate receipts. To be sure, the Twins and White Sox will have only each other to beat for the western-division championship. But, says Minnesota Owner Calvin Griffith: "Teams...