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...main riddle in the Middle East [May 17] is why the U.S. Government doesn't remember what happened as a result of Chamberlain's forcing Czechoslovakia to give in to Hitler's demand for the Sudetenland. Now Secretary of State Rogers is forcing Israel to give up the Sinai, supposedly to Egypt, but actually to Russia, which really controls the military power in Egypt...
Hate Mail. Ryun's departure from competition left the field to Liquori. Asked if he missed Ryun, he said, "I don't think Wilt Chamberlain misses Bill Russell very much." But Liquori did miss the competition, if only because the pressure that buckled Ryun became "the monkey on my back." It was not too large a monkey; going into the Freedom Games, Liquori had won 27 out of his last 28 races. Ryun, in retirement, returned to school, packed on 35 lbs., and tried to forget all the hate mail that labeled him a "quitter." A year...
...Martin Luther King, Jr. Afre-American Center in conjunction with the University's Distinguished Lecture Series. Ali, who has made 22 college lectures since the so-called "Fight of the Century," was scheduled to appear the previous Thursday; however, negotiations for a fight with basketbaill player Wilt Chamberlain had prevented him from making the appearance. Consequently, the crowd of 800, roughly half black, half white, was all the more anxious for the arrival of the man Huey Newton and others call "The People's Champion of the World...
...OUESTION and answer period followed Ali's poetry reading. The first question set the light tone that prevailed the rest of the night. A white student asked if Ali thought that the proposed Chamberlain bout would "be degrading to the art of boxing." Ali replied, "You go out on the street and find me just one black man who can't fight...
WOODROW WILSON, stumping for America's entry onto the battlefields of Europe, promised the American people a "war to end all wars." Neville Chamberlain, home from Munich carrying his umbrella and waving a piece of paper, promised the world "peace in our time." And now Richard Milhaus Nixon, picking up the fallen banner of the romantic and the insane, says that by giving the Saigon regime a "chance" to survive, he is assuring not only "peace in our time," but for a long time to come...