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...formal church committees, instead gets things done through a series of ad hoc "task forces." Every other Sunday after the morning service, the church holds a meeting, open to anyone in town, at which new programs are decided upon and new task forces selected. "We're like a boxer on his toes," says Durham. Among Glide's more successful projects: a "Black People's Store" that supplies needy Negroes with free food, clothing and furniture; a "Citizens Alert" legal-aid group to guard against police brutality; two halfway houses for released mental patients. Glide was instrumental...
DiSeglio, one of the 40-plus men murdered in gangland-style in Greater Boston since March, 1964, was a 26-year old former boxer when killed. He was shot five times in the head and his body left in a sports car in Topsfield. Police believe that DiSeglio, allegedly a minor underworld figure, was murdered in East Boston and his body transported to the rural North Shore town...
...conqueror. And there was an equally ebullient Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny, outwardly unconcerned that his latest Middle East adventure was dissolving like a Sahara mirage. When the smiling Presidents met at Cairo International Airport last week, Podgorny took Nasser's hand and held it high in a boxer's victory gesture. It was almost as if a dazed Sonny Liston, having just been counted out, had staggered to his feet and claimed a knockout over Cassius Clay. "We will fight to victory," the airport crowds chanted. "Down with American imperialism...
Died. Eddie Eagan, 69, the only U.S. athlete ever to win a gold medal in both summer and winter Olympics (as a light-heavyweight boxer in 1920 and a bobsledder in 1932), a dedicated lawyer and sportsman but easygoing administrator, who as head of the New York State Athletic Commission from 1945 to 1951 came under mounting attack for his irresolute manner in dealing with pro boxing scandals, and finally resigned; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...walks away to play a rack and the circulation of people resumes. Uncle constantly circumnavigates the hall. He is a small, squat man who appears to be literally easier to flatten than knock over. He advances like a boxer, stopping before the more loud-mouthed, hence less important, kids to draw back his fist and flex his forearm. Violence diffuses through the room like the smoke, and it is easy to forget that the friendly shoves are shoves. Then maybe a drunk comes in. Vic says to the stranger, "Go now. That kid in blue is drunk. He's crazy...