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When Clay agreed to fight Mildenberger last week in Frankfurt, the first thing he insisted on was an impartial non-German referee. That point won, the fight figured to be a cinch. Bookies made Cassius a l-to-10 favorite, and even the promoters-with a fat TV contract in the bag-made little effort to build up the German as a challenger. "Do you think our Karl has a chance?" a Frankfurt cab driver asked one of the promoters. Sighed his passenger: "To live...
After knocking off Princeton, recognized as the East's top tennis team. Harvard looks like a cinch to overpower Dartmouth at Hanover today...
...return, he entered Harvard in the same class (1938) as the late Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., recalls him as a bright, amiable fellow who might have gone far in politics -but not so far as his brother John. Schlesinger made Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, seemed a cinch to win highest honors-until his final oral exam. "Since Arthur knew so much," says Professor Paul H. Buck, "I felt I should give him a very stiff exam." It was so stiff that Arthur went home convinced he had flunked. That night a worried and embarrassed Schlesinger Sr. roused...
...organization front-page coverage in newspapers across the country. As long as Sims maintains the mystique, the American press will do his proselytizing and fund-raising for him. Sims estimates that there are now 50 to 60 Deacon chapters in existence, and it's a cinch that most of these were inspired by newspaper accounts alone. Sims told me, "I don't really like publicity. I'd never talk to the press if their noise didn't help...
...Lead-Pipe Cinch...