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Defeat came to Muhammad Ali, and with it the ghosts of a Miami night. Sonny Liston had been a tired man, worn by poverty and prison. At 35, he was old for a fighter???even for a slugger who stayed put and blasted. He got into the ring with a strong, fast, young Cassius Clay, who had nothing to lose and a crown to gain. Last week Muhammad Ali was a tired man too, pummeled in the ring for 24 years?amateur and professional. At 36, he was old for a fighter???especially for a boxer who must move...
...artifice of paradox is essential to the art of politics. Desiring peace among themselves, the Democrats dined together last week in the name of their greatest fighter???Andrew Jackson. Desiring to unite behind one man and on one platform, they suppressed their enthusiasm for their most popular man?Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was not present?and they tiptoed across a central plank in his platform?Prohibition, which loomed in the minds...
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