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Word: bums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Manager Benbow insists that the Big Cat will demolish Cassius; "Clay is a stinker, a bum, a clown," he says. But regardless of what happens Nov. 14, he figures that his and Williams' share of the pot will top $500,000, and he has already decided how to spend it. "I'm going to have a stable of 40 to 50 young fighters," he says. "I want them from every race and creed, from all over the world." Benbow plans to build a woodworking plant on his ranch; his boxers will spend their days turning out "the finest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: Waiting for Cassius | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay in a title bout against his Bum-of-the-Month, this time Britain's Brian London, live by satellite from Earls Court, London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 5, 1966 | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

Riddled with guilt and anxiety, Pinter's people are Kafkaesque in that they cannot evade, placate, or even contact the unseen powers. He deals in archetypes that subtly evoke family figures, fathers and sons, brothers and sisters. The two brothers who take in and then evict the scrofulous bum in The Caretaker might be doing it to their own father. Pinter's characters are both strange and familiar with one another, as members of a family are. There is a trace of incest in his plays, and his characters take cover behind a smoke screen of language that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE MODERN THEATER OR, THE WORLD AS A METAPHOR OF DREAD | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...charming children's choir sings an al bum of popular German folk music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 1, 1966 | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...selective-service system has reached a decibel count unmatched since the program first began-25 years, 81,000,000 registrants and 13,500,000 inductees ago. There are the predictable complaints about deferment of such people as New York Jets Quarterback Joe Namath (4F with a legitimately bum knee) and Lynda Bird Johnson's boy friend, $200,000-a-year Actor George Hamilton (3A because he is his mother's sole support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: Greeting | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

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