Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edith (weighing in at an estimated 150 Ibs.) came out swinging a white skull which she had just taken from a cardboard box. On it she indicated what she called "the sphenoidal ridge." When a head is punched, she went on to explain, the brain is knocked against this ridge, and punch-drunkenness results. Sixty percent of all fighters, said Dr. Summerskill, end by becoming permanently punch-drunk. Beefy
...Light. What happened next has now largely been told in biting bureaucratese in the Army's report released last week (see box). Roy Cohn accepted Dave Schine's draft as a personal challenge. He enlisted McCarthy's aid in trying to get Schine a commission. When this failed, Roy personally extended the long arm of the U.S. Senate to protect Dave during his enlisted service...
...custom in Iranian elections, it was all pretty much a fraud. The twelve lucky winners had been decided before the first voter dropped his scrap of paper into the metal box. All were supporters of Premier Fazlollah Zahedi's government. The voters, with cynicism born of experience, knew what to expect. One Teheran elector dropped his ballot in the box, then salaamed deeply three times to the container. Asked why, he retorted: "This box is magic. One drops in a ballot for Mohammed and lo, when the box is opened, it becomes a vote for Fazlollah...
...woman who reminds him of his wife attempt suicide with strychnine rather than face a Russian interrogation), and the Russians are vigorously presented as heels. Johnson's political gambit is fairly daring to have been executed in Hollywood, 1953; and it may serve, if the picture is a box-office success, to remind moviemakers that there is still no law against unpopular opinions...
...Hollis is a subversive influence in the Yard, it is apparently a lasting one, for its solid box-like architecture makes it almost indestructible. Together with Stoughton it was the last dormitory built with a "medieval type" chamber-and-study-room arrangement that made for large apartments...