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...rest of the fight, Clay's left fist beat a bewildering tattoo on Patterson's forehead, and Cassius punctuated each punch with cries of "Boop! Boop! Boop!" Patterson later complained that he had aggravated an old back injury. Only losers need excuses, and Floyd needed more than most. From the second round on, it was evident that Cassius could have knocked Patterson out any time he chose-and he almost did, despite himself, in the sixth round. A ripping uppercut snapped Floyd's head back and turned his legs to rubber; a left hook drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: Lunch for a Lion | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...popcorn sales? It's not a bird or a plane but, of all things, Batman. The 1939 comic-strip creation of Bob Kane, which Columbia Pictures filmed in 1943 as a 15-episode serial, has now been spliced, end to end, to produce a 248-minute marathon of fist fights, zombies and ravenous alligators. Last week it was packing the house at an off-campus theater near the University of Illinois, and Columbia plans similar orgies in 20 major cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Return of Batman | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...months, Congressman Lindsay had exhorted fellow New Yorkers to make "our city great again, the Empire City of the world." He shook his fist in the air as he shouted into a hand microphone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Incitement to Excellence | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

Soup When David Miller, 22, graduated from Syracuse's Jesuit-run Le Moyne College last June, he headed for New York and went to work without pay in a Bowery-area soup kitchen run by the Catholic Worker movement, a charita ble group that is also passionately paci fist. In mid-October Miller got out of the kitchen long enough to land in the soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Draft: Out of the Kitchen Into the | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...labor unions, were back on their jobs a year later at much higher pay; too many trains had been going off the tracks. In the Congo's fertile Kivu region, deserted Belgian farmlands have been snapped up by eager Italians who are now making money hand over fist. Attracted by high salaries and a booming, open economy, the French population of the Ivory Coast has doubled in the past five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: We Want Our Country | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

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