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...Pier Six battler, he had turned Fancy Dan. Instead of ducking his head and plowing in, Fullmer danced tantalizingly beyond the reach of Basilio's deadly left hook. When Basilio swung, Fullmer countered with deft precision. When Basilio crowded him into a corner, Fullmer calmly retreated into a cocoon of arms and shoulders, then emerged to give better than he got. When Basilio clinched, Fullmer wrestled him about as he pleased and tossed in an occasional elbow for old time's sake. In the 14th, eyes glowering behind scarred, gnarled brows, Basilio took a right hand that staggered...
...price of pants: $195) to Designer Lisa Fonssagrive's Edwardian smoking jacket and pants (see cut) of muted-green velveteen piped in mauve (retail price: $125). Another costume from the same designer, onetime top U.S. fashion model (TIME, Sept. 19, 1949): a woolen evening wrap shaped like a cocoon, with a single saucer-sized button under the chin. The color: hot canary...
Inside the Cocoon. What sort of an individual is the crown prince? Dr. Koizumi has supplied a remarkably candid summing up: "He is by no means an exceptional young man. But he will do. He is sincere, takes his responsibilities seriously, and he is a good thinker even if the process is sometimes painful. He is the product of his upbringing. Like other members of the imperial family, he has lived a cocoonlike existence, with little knowledge of people and events in the outside world. He has too many servants but he lives simply. His great handicap is that...
...threat, the portentous horror, indeed, the phantasmagorical folly of appeasement, of a Munich, if you please, in the face of great decisions which may determine the future of the entire Arabian peninsula, perhaps of the whole Western World, centering in arid Iraq, cradle of civilization, womb of nationalism, cocoon of Communism's conspiratorial caprices, where the stupendous clash of incompatible ideologies generates a maelstrom of incredible tautological complexity which, if only time would allow, I would be delighted to analyze down to the most delicate detail, but with the grader's forbearance I shall now go on to the next...
Welfare's Cocoon. After the war, Richlanders, on the face of it, never had it so good. The city had no slums, no unemployment, no parking meters, no taxes. It boasted a shopping center, a hotel, nine schools, 28 churches, a library, a 109-bed hospital. Three-bedroom apartments rented for $35 a month, three-bedroom homes for $65. But gradually, townspeople sensed the tightness of their welfare-city cocoon. No family could own its home. Not general necessity but General Electric determined the site of stores and set their rents. Police, firemen, even the city librarian were...