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...readily explainable: his predecessor, Thomas Mann, is Lyndon Johnson's longtime Latin America expert, and even though Mann has been promoted to Under Secretary of State, it is Mann whom the President phones, not infrequently at midnight, to talk Latin America. Last week Vaughn, a onetime professional boxer and teacher who rose through the civil service to become Peace Corps administrator in Latin America and Ambassador to Panama, set about establishing his own primacy...
...strapping, hamhanded man with slicked-back hair and brooding mustache, Michelangeli ambled onstage with the baleful nonchalance of a boxer bent on mayhem. Once he settled at the keyboard, his touch was featherweight light, his attack crisp and restrained through Debussy's liquid Images and Beethoven's soaring Sonata in C Major (Opus 2, No. 3). After two encores and a dozen curtain calls, he unconcernedly ambled offstage to a standing ovation. Typically, following his triumph, he repaired last week to the regenerative quietude of a month-long teaching engagement at Siena's Accademia Musicale Chigiana. Untypically...
...Spanish Jews who had settled in the U.S. in the 17th century. When Bernard was ten, his father moved the family to New York City, became physician to such eminent families as the Guggenheims. Bernard graduated from New York's City College at 19, also became an enthusiastic boxer who ever after took enormous pride in his well-muscled, 6-ft. 3-in. physique; well into his 70s, he worked out with dumbbells. After college, he went to work on Wall Street, took with him the conviction that "all there is to economics is the law of supply...
...fights-if they had anything to say about it. In Pennsylvania and New York, legislators instantly introduced bills to ban the sport; in Washington, Senator John Tower called for a Congressional investigation. But fix and fraud are not synonymous. The truth was simply that a big, tough, fast young boxer hit a woozy old stiff in the face. Nobody will ever be sure just how hard Cassius Clay's punch was, but it was hard enough to make Sonny Liston call it a payday...
Died. Lucian ("Sonny") Banks, 24, journeyman heavyweight boxer from Detroit, whose main claim to fame was his 1962 knockdown of Cassius Clay (Clay kayoed Banks four rounds later); of a blood clot in the brain, three days after he was knocked out in the ninth round by Leotis Martin; in Philadelphia. Banks was the 64th fighter to die of ring injuries in the last five years...