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Clay opened Round Three with a damaging flurry of punches which opened a deep gash under the champ's left eye. Fully aroused by Clay's audacity and perhaps remembering that this was the round he had chosen for the KO, Liston tore fato Clay with a vicious array of blows. Sonny landed a left and a right to the body, a hard left to the jaw and followed this with a rare right uppercut. The third round was the only one in which Liston displayed the lethal effectiveness of his Patterson triumphs. That he did not lay Cassius...
...thing is certain. Cassius Clay deserved better than 7-1 odds for this fight. The gash on Liston's face and the dislocated shoulder prove that Cassius is not the impotent puncher that his critics had labeled him. If Cassius showed that he can hand out some punishment, his weathering of Liston's third round attack also proved that he can take it. Clay has been maintaining for some time that he is the fastest heavyweight ever. Few would doubt...
...Danger. Incredibly, the Haitians scoffed at the warnings. The chief of the Haitian Red Cross went on the radio, angrily denying all danger. The next voice heard was the banshee howl of Flora. By now, the winds had accelerated to 140 m.p.h. Savagely, Flora cut a 75-mile gash across Haiti's Tiburon Peninsula, denuding the mountaintops, reducing scores of villages to rubble, and carving great rivers of red clay that stained offshore waters crimson three miles out. Radio monitors in Miami heard an unidentified operator report "terrible damage." Then he was blown off the air. Within Haiti...
...hospital to learn that her son was dead, then to another hospital to learn that her husband and a daughter were dead. At the second hospital, the widowed and triply bereaved mother was eventually allowed to see her battered surviving children. Nancy, 9, had (among other injuries) a deep gash over her eye. Says Mrs. Gilliland: "I noticed that her eyelid was cut, and I wondered whether there was an eye under that lid. Then I remembered our plan...
...Ware. Ware said Johnson then asked him, "Why have you been hiding from me all night?" When Ware replied that he had just gotten home and hadn't been hiding, the Sheriff knocked him over the left eye with the butt of his pistol leaving a deep gash that required two stitches...