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...insurance or secretarial work often retort: "Why should I take a $600-a-month job when I can collect unemployment benefits?" Others rethink their ambitions: Jackie Smith, a Boston College marketing major who is "shocked and amazed" not to find a job in business, has been a professional boxer for six years and is keeping in shape-just in case. There are graduates who grow frustrated and bitter, and there are those who accept what is available with good humor and hope for better times. Paul Creasey, 25, a U.C.L.A. history B.A., had hoped to become a management trainee...
...opened fire with a 12-gauge shotgun and .32-cal. pistol, killing the bartender and two of three customers. Told that the killers had fled in a white car, police briefly stopped a white Dodge but let the occupants go when they recognized Carter, then a nationally ranked middleweight boxer who lived in Paterson. Later that night the Dodge was identified by a witness, and a search of it turned up one .32-cal. bullet and a 12-gauge shotgun shell. But Carter and Artis, who had also been in the car, were not charged until four months later when...
...talking about more than a boxing title; he's suggesting a state in which relationships between people are informed by an intuitive sense of justice, rather than by a systematic but easily perverted legal code. That Rubin's case means more to Dylan than a simple entanglement of a boxer with the law is emphasized by the way in which he is named: in narrative verses he is identified as "Rubin," or "Rubin Carter," while in the choruses he is "The Hurricane...," "This is the story of The Hurricane," and "That's the story of The Hurricane," and "That...
...topless swimsuits have become ancient history, and the thong never really caught on. So Designer Rudi Gernreich has come up with a new entry in the field of frivolous fashion: boxer shorts for women. Says he: "You can jog in them, sleep in them, wear them around the house, around the pool or over a bare swimsuit" These modified B.V.D.s will appear in stores throughout the U.S. by March and will sell for $5 to $7. The men's garters, he quickly adds, are not included...
...give a performance good enough to win him two new titles. As Rocky, Stallone is the most likeable, unlikely of heroes. He projects a toughness toward the world that, underneath, is deeply touched. Standing with a blanket wrapped around him after his early morning workout, Rocky is a tired boxer, but also a sick old man or a proud Indian chief. Stallone takes each scene as if it were a long, hard blow and then slowly arises, overcoming the inertia of years of failure...