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Black, Not Red. Umkonto Leader Mandela, once a celebrated Johannesburg boxer, admitted planning sabotage but insisted that he acted as a black, not a Red. His inspiration, he argued, had come not from Moscow or Peking but from the Zulu and Xhosa chieftains who fought long and skillfully against the technologically superior Boers a century ago. "This," he said in a dramatic peroration from the dock, "is the struggle of the African people, inspired by their own suffering and experience. It is a struggle for the right to live. I have cherished the ideal of a demo cratic and free...
Most blatant of the district's toughs was balding, broad-shouldered Paulie Muller, 38, head of the "Black Gang" and "King of Sankt Pauli." Flanked by his muscle man, a hulking waiter known as "Hans the Swine," and tailed by such hangers-on as "Boxer Fred," "Emil the Bull" and "Gambler Heini," Muller cut a wide swath along the Raper, intimidating bar owners and roughing up anyone who challenged him. But last October Paulie Muller met his nemesis in the form of a camel's-hair coat...
...individual who has not staked his life as a boxer may, no doubt, be recognized as a person but he has not attained recognition as a being in and-for-himself; he remains merely an outerness for other consciousnesses. The function of the Straus Trophy is to enable self-consciousness to effect cognizance as self by other selves. The Straus Trophy is the ethical whole, the actualization of athletic freedom as a necessary Idea in-and-for-itself. It is, then, the necessary course of the Idea through the Becoming of athletics that constitutes the "will-be" of a "reckoning...
Dunster's recently named athlete-of-the-year, David "Ace" Ames, '64, termed the theft "a dastardly deed." Ames, a boxer, says there will be, "a reckoning...
...Leeches. The Senators did not think it was particularly touching. Demanding an end to "the leeches who monopolize the faith and confidence of the untutored boxer," New York's Kenneth Keating called for immediate passage of a bill that would put a federal appointee in full charge of the sport...