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...that Frazier will meet in the ring is a different kind of fighter from the man who took Liston's heavyweight title away in 1964. Then he was still calling himself Cassius Clay, and the jaunty slogan of his training camp was "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." Now at his headquarters in Miami Beach's Fifth Street Gym. the byword is "He moves like silk, hits like a ton"?and for good reason. Yon Cassius no longer has that lean and hungry look. After 3½ years of exile, he returned to the ring four months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bull v. Butterfly: A Clash of Champions | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...would have been premed long ago if I had had to worry about money at all. People who are aware of the fact that little green slips don't float through the mail will tend to look for something secure," Wedum said...

Author: By James Hines, | Title: The Great Pre-Med Boom | 2/24/1971 | See Source »

...David's story-perhaps to kill him, or to sleep with him, or (with sledgehammer irony) to turn up being his long-lost trampy-heiress half-sister. But placing that demand on an item in a narrative is the result of our Pavlovian response to rhetorical conventions. Interesting people float into our real lives, and just as arily float away, but in hard-core art we demand that major plot details assemble themselves into discernible constellations by the end of the work...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: The Dull and the Zippy David Holzman's Diary at Lowell Dining Hall, 8 p.m. Saturday and Dunster Dining Hall, 8 p.m. Sunday | 2/19/1971 | See Source »

...sound more sweet can float...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CALLS | 2/12/1971 | See Source »

...ceremonies took place was packed with blacks who came to see the ragtag parade and oath taking that symbolized their assumption of power. On the way, the Druid High School Band kept cadence in the cold morning for the dignitaries riding in a mule-drawn wagon and the float covered with green and white napkins topped by a tinfoil telescope that proclaimed "Greene County-Focus of the Nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greene County, Ala.: Change Comes to the Courthouse | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

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