Word: hoax
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...Terrible Hoax." In the astonished silence, Sonny Liston stalked around the ring. Then came the angry, roaring boos from the 18,894 spectators. Many had not seen the knockout punch; those who had felt cheated. In 258 locations across the U.S., some 500,000 people, who had paid between $4 and $10 each to witness the fight on closed-circuit TV, started filing out in bitter disgust. "It was the stinkingest exhibition I ever saw in my life," said one. At Brooklyn's Fox Theater, 3,800 people did not even have that to say; their screen went blank...
Delivering an ex-champion's blunt verdict, Gene Tunney, who won his crown from Jack Dempsey in 1926, called the fight "a terrible hoax," adding that "it's shows like this that are killing boxing." They surely do it no good. In the prefight ballyhoo, everyone had been told to expect a classic which matched Patterson, the swift and stouthearted Good Guy, against Liston, the hulking, oft-arrested...
...above the U.S. The steel was rushed to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge. Mass., where a 6-lb. piece was cut off. The rest went to Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico to be tested for radioactivity. Last week, skeptics, who had all along suspected a hoax, got an official disappointment: the steel really came from a Sputnik...
...heart, in which love is not an emotion but a deity. Its creed was faith in the miracle of man's individuality, his capacity for delight in beauty, in spring, in flowers, in girls. Its galaxy of devils, which grew as Cummings observed the modern world ("a hoax of clocks and calendars"), included dry intellects, science, mass thought, security worship, Sigmund Freud-everything inside man or outside him that tends to limit his individualism, to reduce his sense of wonder. The opposition was total...
Chicanery? Last week Vienna art circles were in a quandary about the Verlon-Verkauf affair. The critics-including Dr. Hofmann-did not withdraw their praise for the collages, but Verkauf's elaborate hoax did seem to smack of chicanery. If Painter X can promote himself under the name of Dealer Y, Dr. Hofmann pointed out, he could carry the process one step farther and create a demand for Painter X by buying him under the name of Collector Z. Says Hofmann: "The unknown painter who buys his own works at auction to increase their value is not unknown...