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Delivering an ex-champion's blunt verdict, Gene Tunney, who won his crown from Jack Dempsey in 1926, called the fight "a terrible hoax," adding that "it's shows like this that are killing boxing." They surely do it no good. In the prefight ballyhoo, everyone had been told to expect a classic which matched Patterson, the swift and stouthearted Good Guy, against Liston, the hulking, oft-arrested...
...MORT SAHL: Governor Brown is trying to kill Nixon with a blunt instrument...
Fading Fiction. What swayed the Commonwealth Prime Ministers was a blunt 50-minute speech by Harold Macmillan. Though Britain's membership in the Common Market will end special tariff concessions to Commonwealth imports, Macmillan pointed out that these are in any case a fading fiction which Britain can no longer afford; Commonwealth nations-and several have better living standards than Britain-raise ever higher tariff walls against British goods. On the other hand, argued Macmillan, as a member of the European Community, a prosperous Britain will be able to invest in less developed Commonwealth countries and help formulate worldwide...
...successfully from assembling imported Jeep parts to actual manufacturing of cars. The odds were long. One visiting U.S. auto executive, after studying the shed where Jeeps were being assembled at a six-a-day clip and learning that Brazil had no parts suppliers, dismissed the manufacturing project with the blunt comment: "You're nuts...
...Saturday Evening Post (1949-57), whose portfolio of some 8.000 drawings included three that won him Pulitzer prizes (1931, '34, '40); after a long illness; in Manhattan. Duffy insisted that the "best cartoons are against something," caricatured the Ku Klux Klan, Hitler and Communism with such blunt and angry lines that one critic wrote, "If the pen is mightier than the sword, then Duffy's grease pencil is more effective than a well-aimed brick...