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...phones, 300-per-lb. beefsteak-have been able to ease the feelings of frustration and disquiet. The middle class grumbles constantly about soaring prices, which seem to hit it hardest. The lower classes are slightly better off, mainly because Onganía, who started out as a union buster, has turned kindly toward the unions and consults with them regularly in an effort to win some kind of popular support. "Onganía is an orphan," says Labor Leader José Alonso, head of the powerful 150,000-member Textile Workers Union. "He wants support. He wants to be less...
...kind of fight card that is all too rare: a doubleheader that matched 1) Italy's slick-boxing Nino Benvenuti, 29, against Slugger Emile Griffith, 30, for the world middleweight title, and 2) Philadelphia's Joe Frazier, 24, unbeaten in 19 pro fights, against Michigan's Buster Mathis, 23, winner of 23 in a row, for the heavyweight championship of New York, Maine, Massachusetts and Illinois...
...clearly proved last week that he is a legitimate pretender to the dethroned champion's crown. Conceding 39 lbs., 3½ in. of height and 2½ in. of reach to the massive Mathis, who had beaten him twice as an amateur, the ex-slaughterhouse laborer battered Buster with hooks to the head and belted him right through the ropes with a tremendous left in the eleventh round. Mathis staggered to his feet at the count of six, but the referee stopped the fight...
...second title bout of the evening favorite Joe Frazier smashed his way to an 11th round technical knockout over giant Buster Mathis. He won recognition as world heavyweight champ in New York, Maine, Illinois and Massachusetts...
...spiritual narcosis and boredom. Most Bowles characters seem to suffer from a total lack of motivation; they must be seen and interpreted solely in their relation to one another. The poker-faced prose is distinguished by a dry irony and deadpan humor that make Jane Bowles a kind of Buster Keaton of literature...