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Aged only ten years, the Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland last week died a largely unlamented death. The federation's birth in 1953 had smacked of illegitimacy, and one of its principal midwives, burly ex-boxer Roy Welensky, was from the start accused by black nationalists of dedicating himself to the goal of keeping its African population under the thumb of a minority of white settlers...
Villella was a boxer and baseball player at the New York State Maritime College before he made dancing his career, and his presence on a ballet stage is deeply reassuring. With Villella and Principal Dancers Jacques d'Amboise, Erik Bruhn and Conrad Ludlow, Balanchine's company is now notable for the strength of its male dancers-a happy change...
...Hopefully the next speaker will be Tom McNeely," said Gaffney. "We have a partial commitment from him." McNeely, a heavyweight boxer, once lasted three rounds against Floyd Patterson...
...Parkinson's argument that the pendulum is now swinging eastward. The first signs of the shift, he feels, appeared in 1850 with the Taiping rebellion in China, followed closely by the Indian Mutiny and eventually by the Boxer rising of 1900. But the crucial date is 1905, and the crucial event the destruction of the Russian fleet by the Japanese. Since then, Parkinson feels, the "established prestige of the West" has been shattered. (The destruction of the Japanese fleet by the U.S. Navy in World War II does not seem to impress him.) Parkinson does not believe that Eastern...
...Saturday, November 30 THE DEFENDERS (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). An ex-boxer (Lou Antonio) finds his estranged wife with another man and accidentally kills...