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What did it prove? Nothing, aside from the fact that Clay can take it as well as dish it out. Some critics sneered that he was a powder-puff puncher; others insisted that Cassius deliberately had "carried" Chuvalo, could have knocked him out any time he wanted. Clay replied by exhibiting a pair of swollen hands that looked almost as bad as Chuvalo's face: "George's head," he moaned, "is the hardest thing I've ever punched...
...someone had tapped him on the back, he probably wouldn't have looked up. He is like that--always immersed in what he is doing, and always dividing and redividing his time so that he can do things. He is the kind of man would like to taste every dish on every menu in the world; the kind of man who is so indefatigably curious that he would almost stop people on the MBTA to ask them what they had done that morning and what they were planning for the afternoon. Walking up to a card catalogue must be torture...
...Very Tasty Dish...
...strongly object to your statement, in "Raising Hake" [March 18], that on the West Coast saumon blanc goes by the "unappetizing" name of hake. It happens that in some American circles a hake is known as a very tasty dish...
Strange Lines. In 1962, a group of radio astronomers led by Cyril Hazard tried a subtle tactic in an effort to pinpoint a strong radio source that searchers with optical telescopes could not identify. Pointing the Parkes, Australia, 210-ft. dish antenna toward the source, known only as 3C 273,* Hazard's group recorded the precise time that its signals were eclipsed, or blotted out, by the sharp leading edge of the passing moon and the time when they reappeared from behind its trailing rim. Because the position of the moon can be accurately calculated for any given time...