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DIED. WILLIE PASTRANO, 62, fleet-foot boxer whose nimble moves inspired Muhammad Ali; of cancer; in New Orleans. A chubby child who was the butt of many a schoolyard joke, Pastrano dropped the pounds--and his opponents--in the ring, becoming world light-heavyweight champion in the 1960s...
...Peter Braestrup of our Chicago bureau is concerned, the teaching of reading has not changed in a generation. "When I visited the second grade at Lincolnwood School," he wrote, "pupils were reading, just as I did 19 years ago, William Nida's Fleet-foot the Caveboy. And just as I did, too, one small boy stumbled over the word rhinoceros." Peter was one of 51 TIME reporters who spent a good part of the past four weeks filing in and out of classrooms and talking to teachers, students and aroused parents about whether Johnny can or cannot read...
...fleet-foot of the six in recent games has been the 150-pound Hubbard, who was elected captain after the Brown game and went on to score a goal and two assists against the Green at Hanover and pull the three-goal "hat trick" against Belmont Hill...
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