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...Sugar Ray Robinson, 37, four-time middleweight champion of the world, earned close to $500,000 for 15 rounds of fist fighting in which he showed an admirable capacity for absorbing punishment and a furious skill at dishing it out. Round after round, Challenger Carmen Basilio, 30, plodded in to belt his man from heart to haircut, and Robinson fired back with deadly effect. Basilio's head bobbed like a light punching bag at the end of Robinson's jackhammer jab. He started the fight sullen with 5 o'clock shadow; he finished looking like...
...planning is to wade in punching. Each in his own way, the welterweight brawler and the big-talking middleweight boxer, are getting ready to punch a little life into the cooling corpse of professional prizefighting. They will square off next week at Yankee Stadium in one of the richest fist fights of a generation...
...pronunciation: Tooley). Around it is nothing but a featureless white plain, and Fist Clench itself looks like almost nothing. Only low chimney tops show above the snow...
...Fist Clench was "built" by digging trenches with a Peters plow-a 13-ton, Swiss-built monster that chews up ice and snow and blows it over its shoulder. Twenty-four insulated Jamesway Huts. 20 ft. wide and 40 ft. long, were set up in the trenches. Then the trenches were roofed with timber trusses and covered deep with snow. The 60 scientists and military men who spend the winter at Fist Clench will have a!1 reasonable comforts, and they will hardly feel it when the 100-m.p.h. gales start blowing overhead...
...metal with snow. After the snow has had a few days to pack and harden, the metal can be removed, leaving a firm arch of snow like the roof of an Eskimo's igloo. One hundred miles of under-ice highway are now under construction between Thule and Fist Clench, and no blizzard that blows will stop the trucks that...