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Muhammed Ali retained his World's Heavywight Boxing Championship by scoring a technical knockout over Joe Frazier in the fourteenth round of their scheduled fifteen-round grudge match in Manila, the Phillipines...

Author: By James E. Mcgrath, | Title: Ali Wins By TKO In the 14th Round As Frazier Fails | 10/1/1975 | See Source »

...first floor of 1737 Cambridge Street. The room resembles the kind of scholar's study that would appear in a Victorian novel: papers are everywhere, ashtrays are full of the professor's pipe tobacco and cigarette butts and books lie in every manner of arrangement--books with fifteen bookmarks, books face-down on their binding, and books lying fallow--most of them with the dull dark red covers of the University libraries...

Author: By James I. Kaplan, | Title: The Russian Collection | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

Doug Peach does not feel that the union movement has made him faceless: "Fifteen years ago, I was crying out to be accepted as a human being instead of a clock number. But there has been quite a change. I cannot see anything I am crying out for so desperately now. I don't really want to change my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN/SPECIAL REPORT: UPSTAIRS/DOWNSTAIRS AT THE FACTORY | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...islands, demanding that the offices of the Communist Party and the leftist Democratic Movement Party (M.D.P.) be closed. After trying to lynch one Communist sympathizer and kicking and beating three M.D.P. members, the mob surrounded the Communist Party headquarters with tractors, then set the building ablaze with Molotov cocktails. Fifteen persons were injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Turmoil at Home, Chaos in the Colonies | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

They look like a football team doing their warm-up calisthenics. One--the hands go down, two--they move together, three--out to the sides, and four--back up to the top, over and over again. Fifteen people in a classroom imitating the motions of conductor Chen Liang-Sheng...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: Chen Liang-Sheng | 8/12/1975 | See Source »

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