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...again separate as Lidia leaves early, unable to stomach the lionizing throng ("I'd love to know what goes on in a writer's mind"). She walks through the city, fails in an effort to stop a child from crying, passes unnoticed beneath Giovanni's window, breaks up a fist fight between two teen-age toughs, finally calls up to ask her husband to meet...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: La Notte | 8/13/1962 | See Source »

...first week in May, he has trimmed his 6-ft. 1-in. frame down to 220 Ibs. of bulging muscle, and he is one man who knows his own strength. Liston literally has knocked the stuffing out of a 45-lb. punching bag with one swipe of his right fist. He laughs disdainfully while Trainer Reddish slams a 12-lb. medicine ball into his stomach. In The Pines' steam room one day, Liston picked up a 50-lb. weight with his right hand, casually tossed it up over his head and caught it with his left. Gasped Polino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fight Talk | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...three hours after she was born, Denise was carried into the operating room. As soon as he sliced into her abdomen. Surgeon Robert Beveridge saw that her troubles were even worse than he had suspected. "Her organs looked as if someone had just wadded them in his fist and thrown them in there,'' he said. He drained off the abscess that was blocking the infant's small bowel. Next Beveridge sewed a tube into the wall of her stomach so that she could be fed. After that, he performed a colostomy -looped part of the colon (large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Little Mouse | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

...when his helicopter settled down, there were 100,000 waiting to listen and cheer. Kennedy, obviously pleased, responded with fervor. As he promised a partnership between the U.S. and a new Europe (see THE WORLD), he spoke in a loud and firm voice, thumped the rostrum with his fist to drive home his points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: To the Cape | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

...transport gold along lonely trails from a new strike in the High Sierras at a place candidly christened Coarse Gold. He runs across another ex-lawman (Randolph Scott), who is picking up pennies as a carnival sharpshooter. Scott agrees to go along, and suggests a third partner, a sassy, fist-fast, trigger-quicker kid (Ronald Starr). The trio shortly becomes a quartet, as a naive but personable girl (Mariette Hartley) decides to swap the whip-hand threats of her religious zealot father for the ring-finger promises of a beau up at Coarse Gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Westerns | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

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