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...16th century when he recommended that an opponent always be seated so that the light shone in his eyes. Reshevsky's icy calm has a similar unsettling effect on his opponents. But the calm is only skin-deep. After match play, Samuel often breaks into a heavy sweat. When he has lost a game, or drawn one he should have won, sleep escapes him: "I go over and over it in my mind, searching for what went wrong. If I find it, I stay awake kicking myself. If I don't find it, the insomnia's even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Oct. 20, 1952 | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...studding, the house is ready for the buyer. It is up to him to finish it off with the kit of materials Nelson provides-everything from precut wallboard to paint brushes and hardware. A man & wife can finish the house in about three weeks. After the liberal quantities of "sweat equity" have been poured in, Nelson claims, the house is worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Finish It Yourself | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...Republic breaks into a sweat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR JOE McCARTHY | 9/30/1952 | See Source »

...either side, fullback Culver took the ball for the first time. He burst through guard and galloped 25 yards in the end zone, almost, untouched. Culver did it again a few minutes later on a similar play. Jordan then withdrew his first team, which had hardly worked up a sweat. In went the second group, which labored mightily but got nowhere. In fact, the defense scored when Brian Reynolds, in at halfback, picked off a pass and returned it 50 yards...

Author: By Richard B. Kline, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...much less worried by the loss of Iranian oil (mostly made up from other Middle East sources) than by the increasing danger that Iran, strife-racked, almost bankrupt, and near chaos, will topple into the Red fold. The U.S.-British offer, which had obviously cost the U.S. much diplomatic sweat and the British a lot of pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: No Deal | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

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