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TRANSPACIFIC GAMBIT. Halfway across the 

 Pacific on the 14-day voyage from California to 

 Bikini, newspapermen aboard the press ship "Ap- 

 palachian" indulge in a silent game of chess. Oc- 

 tavius Guzman, Mexican journalist, at the left, 

 plays A. M. Khokhlov, Russian newspaperman. 

 Thoughtful kibitzers of the game include Stephen 



White, New York Herald Tribune, extreme left, 

 and in the rear center, Sam Shaffer of Newsweek 

 and Don Morris of the Philadelphia Record. Called 

 "the Apple" by her crew, "Appalachian" was 

 equipped with many thousands of dollars worth 

 of electronic communication equipment for flash- 

 ing messages and radiophotographs. 



