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...next four rounds bouncing the big (6 ft. 1¼ in., 202 lbs.) Olympic champion (28) off the canvas. In the intervals when Rademacher was upright, Floyd showed signs of solicitude almost shocking in an honest fistfighter; he waltzed the challenger around, cuffed him into position, held him erect as if part of his job was to make Pete look good. In the sixth round, after seven knockdowns. Rademacher was a rubber-legged wreck and had taken the ten-count for a knockout...
...theater usherette pantomiming a gypsy musical, and rode herd on a typical Party: a swirl of waltzers, a specialty spot by Dancers Rod Alexander and Bambi Lynn, an amateur ballroom-dancing contest between three couples aged five to eleven, and, in the closing moments, an appearance by tall, erect Arthur Murray, 62, in time to waltz his wife away...
...under gunfire"). A Harvard Ph.D., Patch became an authority on Chaucer, was so identified with his hero that a student once greeted him, "Good morning, Mr. Chaucer." His composed reply: "Just call me Geoff." Looking, as one colleague put it, "like the president of a country-almost any country," erect, white-haired Howard Patch not only charmed and terrorized students ("they have to submit to the possibility of ridicule, stand up under criticism"), but also implacably lampooned shortsighted administrators (his sarcastic advice to facultymen: "If you want to get ahead, go slow") and all such vulnerable aspects of the academic...
University officials have stated, nevertheless, that Harvard has enough land to erect a dormitory on the DeWolfe-Mt. Auburn block, and that the University will build around private property. No construction on Copperthwaite St. is planned this year...
...France, West Germany, Italy, and the Benelux countries, have been asked to ratify, by the close of this year, two treaties which promise to remodel them into a compact industrial unit. An outgrowth of existing West European agreements, the Common Market Treaty plans to eliminate all tariff walls and erect a common rate among its signing nations. To further this common economic endeavor, a second treaty, "Euratom," will set about overhauling Europe's industrial power, replacing by 1967 present coal and oil energy with 15 million kilowatts of unclear power. While the Common Market Treaty will produce tensions and stresses...