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...strong, but so is Frazier. No amount of bluster is likely to deter Smokin' Joe, a raging, bobbing, weaving, rolling swarmer who moves in one basic direction?right at his opponent's gut. A kind of motorized Marciano, he works his short arms like pistons, pumping away with such mechanical precision that he consistently throws between 54 and 58 punches each round. He works almost exclusively inside, crouching and always moving in to slam the body. When the pummeling begins to slow his opponent, when the guard drops to protect the stomach, Frazier tosses a murderous left hook...
Pass/Fail. During regular semesters, probably the most common reform is in grading. The traditional system has often led not to knowledge but to cheating, and has encouraged students to take "gut" courses rather than risk their averages on more challenging subjects. In many colleges from Harvard to Stanford, students now can choose to get only a "pass" or "fail." The option is usually restricted to elective courses...
...pamphlet, Casanova "knew how to make love without making his women pregnant." His secret: a primitive form of "French letter," a century-old British slang term for condom. "Instead of being made out of synthetic rubber, as they are nowadays, it was made out of sheep's gut," explains the council. "To keep it in place, he tied it on with a tasteful pink ribbon...
...came from a tenement-bound ethnic minority, a folk hero. This spirit is not yet dead; though today's fighters don't go twenty-five or thirty rounds, though tickets to a good fight now cost as much as seats for a ballet, when Italian legions scream "Nino!" a gut-level nationalism is present; and when Clay returns to floor a dumb (if scrappy) Irish fighter like Quarry, and a stronger Oscar Bonavena, the crowd roars for him not only as a boxer, but as a surrogate warrior fighting for appealing politics and style...
...hardly seems to call for the firing of the program director, Terry Lenzner, and his deputy, Frank Jones. But that is exactly what happened (TIME, Nov. 30). Now the OEO legal services division is full of deepening suspicion that the firing was a clear sign the Administration intends to gut the program...