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Today, on a score of campuses where the sport has hung on, boxing is beginning to flex its muscles with new vigor. But the revival bears no resemblance to the bloody donnybrooks of the professional prize ring. College boxing is safer and saner than ever. New rules require college fighters to wear protective headgear and use 12-oz. gloves; there is a mandatory nine-count on all knockdowns, and referees have a free-wheeling authority for stopping one-sided scraps. Protected by such careful conventions, undergraduates cut loose with skillful enthusiasm. A college fight is limited to three 2-minute...
Ring Out the Old. By week's end Congress had stamped its final seal of approval on a bale of bills. The main ones: flex ible farm-parity prices, atomic energy, death penalty for peacetime espionage, social security, foreign aid, 5% Government salary raise, unemployment compensation, higher national debt limit, Commodity Credit Corporation borrowing authority, Foreign Service expansion, and the "Hiss" bill revoking pensions of Government workers convicted of felonies or using the Fifth Amendment...
Knives & Ice Cream. Without waiting for the government to solicit his services, a fierce, black-bearded giant named Shaban Jafari cruised the polling places through the week with his ragged associates-the Society of Gallant Men-to flex his muscles on behalf of Zahedi candidates. Tough, rough Shaban, who is called the "Brainless One," came out of Teheran's slums, was once Iran's national wrestling champion. In the past he put his brawn to work for Mohammed Mossadegh, and in his behalf used to sack opposition newspaper offices. Now professing loyalty to Zahedi, the man who threw...
...flight back from the Foreign Ministers' conference in Berlin, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stopped off in Bermuda long enough to flex his muscles in a quick swim. Two hours later he was airborne again, and at sundown, one windy day last week, he landed at Washington's National Airport for a routine welcome home. There was a whispered briefing from Under Secretary Bedell Smith, a kiss from Dulles' sister, an ambassadorial handshake from France, Britain and West Germany. Then Dulles headed for his office to map a campaign on the issue that was suddenly blowing...
Coupled to the new model is a proposal for using this strength politically. If the Russians know that the U.S. is clearly capable of delivering a knockout blow, they may enter negotiations with a different attitude. The U.S. should be unafraid to flex its muscles in negotiations (as the theory goes) if muscle-flexing is necessary to secure a workable agreement for ensuring peace...