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...longer reach (7 in.), but Cassius is taller (6 ft. 3 in. v. 6 ft. 1 in.), faster, and has a big advantage in age (eight years). Yet few experts see it Clay's way. "Nobody's gonna beat Liston 'cept old age," said Joe Louis. "Clay doesn't know how to fight," agreed a ringwise trainer. "Liston will break him in half...
...American art critic free-lancing in Europe this summer, I must compliment you on your concise and readable account of Venice's Biennale [June 29], an art show that could not possibly be fully covered ex cept through superhuman means...
...tangled skein of alliances and associations, knitting the nations together for everything from the defense of the free world (NATO) to the telecasting of the Scots Guards into the homes of Athenians and Ankarans (EUROVISION), and the exchange of trade (EFTA), aid (OECD). and commemorative postage stamps (CEPT). Some of these organizations are not radically different from the old familiar alliances that the European nations have always found it convenient to form in times of relative peace. The drastic new departure that galvanizes all the others is the six-nation Common Market, comprising France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg...
According to Luke - generally accepted as author of the Acts of the Apostles - young Saul was sent to Jerusalem to study under the great rabbi Gamaliel. True to the Jewish tradition that a rabbi must have a trade so that he will never have to ac cept money for teaching the law of God, Saul was a tentmaker...
...first woman's vote from Eve. He bills himself as "the WHITE people's choice" for Governor, and he runs on a platform that has served him ever since he was a two-bit sheriff: "Fightin' the niggers and fightin' th' aristocrats, 'cept you don't have to fool with th' aristocrats no more...