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...Emile Griffith knocked down champion Dick Tiger in the ninth round and won the middleweight title by unanimous decision last night, before 16,000 booing fans at Madison Square Garden...
...Griffith, who also holds the welter-weight crown, was ten pounds lighter and nine years younger, and Tiger simply could not stay with the faster man. Although Tiger jolted Griffith more than once, he failed to follow up his punches...
...been disappointing so far, but this one looks promising. Director Terrence Young (Dr. No) uses an Ian Fleming story to illustrate the U.N.'s efforts to control narcotics, and the cast is a U.N. in itself: Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson, Hugh Griffith, Jack Hawkins, Rita Hayworth, Trevor Howard, E. G. Marshall, Marcello Mastroianni, Gilbert Roland, Omar Sharif, Nadja Tiller, Eli Wallach and Princess Grace Kelly...
...Frank Robinson away from Cincinnati over the winter, and he is an old horsehide hater: he hit .393 this spring, with eight homers and 17 RBls. Even so, the Minnesota Twins (3-1) would probably be a shoo-in, if it weren't for the way Owner Calvin Griffith holds onto his money. Imagine. Pitcher Jim ("Mudcat") Grant won 21 games last year, but he had to hold out for 17 days to get the kind of raise he wanted. As a result, he has looked just awful: 17 hits, ten runs in 14 innings. Then there is Tony...
Bread on the Waters? The experts generally agreed, too, that China's internal problems have left Peking the paper dragon of world powers. "Save through the application of her doctrine of national-liberation wars, China cannot influence events outside peripheral areas," said Griffith. Thus "she wishes above all to remove our presence from Asia." To a man, the Sinologists urged that the U.S. try to normalize relations with China, however unrewarding that might be. They proposed that Washington recognize the Peking regime, support its admission to the U.N. (provided Nationalist China is not ousted) and in general follow...