Word: fighting
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...road for a Massachusetts politician. High Massachusetts state officials like the governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney-general served only two year terms. And the men seeking party nominations to these posts traditionally began their search for delegates' votes six months before the June conventions. The fight for the next election, then, began only about 14 months after the last. If a defeated candidate could manage to keep his organization together for little more than a year then he would have a serious chance for gaining his party's nomination for the same or some similar office...
Still, Malaysia is by no means free from troubles. In the isthmus near Thailand hide some 600 Communist guerrillas, leftovers from the Communist-inspired civil war that ended in 1960. Others are clustered along the border in Borneo and sometimes fight alongside Indonesian raiders, who apparently have still not got the message that konfrontasi has ended...
Thunder from the Right. Boxing has been Hugh Benbow's love ever since he left home at 15 with $50 pinned to his underwear. Forty fights later, Lightweight Benbow quit the ring to become a businessman, but his affection for the sport remained. He made one fortune in costume jewelry, lost it in the 1946 market crash, made another in Texas oil. Now 63, Benbow is back in boxing as manager and father confessor to Cleveland ("Big Cat") Williams, 33, who on Nov. 14 in Houston will fight Cassius Clay for the heavyweight championship of the world...
...longer than Clay's), and his 48-in. chest tapers to a 32-in. waist. "That fella could be great if he was trained properly," Benbow decided, and in 1962 bought up his contract for $20,000. Over the next two years, Williams won seven fights, lost only one, developed a thunderous right-hand punch to go with a devastating left hook. Finally, in November 1964, the Big Cat got a real chance: he signed to fight Ernie Terrell for the World Boxing Association's version of the heavyweight title. Benbow gave Williams a crisp new $100 bill...
...fight is still brewing over the Cambridge School Committee's refusal to permit a Young Democrat-sponsored speech by Stokely Carmichael at Rindge Technical High School. The controversy has prompted the Committee to discuss a formal policy for future Harvard speakers at the school. The new policy calls on Harvard to make some important concessions on its responsibility in the presentation of speakers. In exchange, the School Committee offers nothing...