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Sweden's Johansson is breezy and confident. Despite his drubbing in the second fight-he was still groggy an hour after the finish-Ingo still talks at times as if Patterson were just a preliminary boy. "I have no more respect for him as a boxer than I had in the first fight," he says. Ingo even stayed unruffled last week when the U.S. Internal Revenue Service socked him with a suit for $598,000 in back taxes. He would, he said, willingly fight even if his third-fight purse were tied up. "If I didn't fight...
...relinquish any. As the constitutional talks in London dragged on for weeks, the white settlers boycotted them, while the black leaders attended and fumed. When Macleod finally gave both sides a look at his proposed compromise, they erupted. In Salisbury, Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, a strapping ex-boxer who speaks for the white settlers, stormed: "The vicious influence of African nationalism has apparently turned the bone marrow of many metropolitan countries to jelly. I intend to stem that tide if it is within my power." Northern Rhodesia's leading black nationalist, Kenneth Kaunda, in pressing...
...final judging for best in show, Sister was matched against a bigger, white miniature poodle, a Scottish terrier, a parti-colored cocker, a dachshund and a boxer. After frequent consultations with his wristwatch. as if timing his decisions to television, Judge Joseph E. Redden, himself a terrier fancier, pointed to Sister. Said Redden: "It resolved itself into a choice of the two poodles. There was remarkably little difference in their breed characteristics. In my opinion, the toy was better in the head, and that was the deciding factor...
...every generation.... It was taken for granted that the world was marked out by Providence for exploitation by the European white man and that the principle of every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost was natural law.... The rise of Japan, the Adua disaster, the Boxer rising, none of these epoch-making events really opened the eyes of Europe...
...Salt Lake City on a lecture junket, Boxer-turned-Restaurateur Jack Dempsey, 65, was routed from his bed by a fire at the Mormon Church-owned Hotel Utah. Evacuating his wife Deanna, said the former heavyweight champion, was one of the toughest fights of his career. "I guess she's like all women," shrugged Jack, who has been married four times. "She didn't want to leave the room without fixing her face." In Manhattan, where he will receive his master's degree in business administration from Columbia University next week, Captain Yehiel Aronowicz, 37, doughty onetime...