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Boxing is not really big business anymore. In 1965 bouts grossed less than nine million dollars, and most of that on eight title fights. And boxing without Clay will suffer. Those three years when Clay was on top of the heap, when he defended his crown nine times against everyone he could find, those years will be the last great years for boxing. Perhaps the greatest
Harvard Coach Norm Shepard will probably send his ace, Ray Peters to the hill, hoping to stop Cornell sluggers Mike Riff (.380) and Chris Ritter (.309 and 17 RBI's). Recent League statistics put Peters at the top of he hurling heap with a sparkling...
...Denton, U.S.N. 485087, U.S.S. Independence. Sorrowfully admitting his "vicious, revolting crimes" in bombing "the innocent people and civilian buildings of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam," the recorded confession continued: "The brave and determined workers of an antiaircraft battery shot down my aircraft." The tape went on to heap praise on "the kindness of heart of the Vietnamese government and people." It made Commander Denton sound just like the boy next door-to any boy in Hanoi...
...banner and chant they proclaimed their purpose: "Sweep the great renegade of the working class onto the garbage heap!" and "Sweep the Khrushchev of China into the dustbin of history!" The man so described by these sanitation-minded youngsters, who also referred to him as "a paper tiger," the "big shot" and the "main root of revisionism," was Red China's President Liu Shao-chi, the chief foe of Chairman Mao Tse-tung and his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The renewed attacks on Liu showed that Mao and his followers have not yet succeeded in winning the day; they...
...everything from Germany to Radio Moscow and Joe McCarthy, plus sports, doctors, dogs, commercial TV and many of its performers; after a long illness; in London. Cassandra once described Liberace as "this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love." And thereupon Liberace sued for libel and won a $22,400 judgment...