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...eighth round, Clay knew he was not going to knock out Jones. He knew something else too: that he was behind in the fight. Jab, jab, jab, hook hook, hook, he poured it on in the ninth and tenth. A hard right to the face rocked him, but still Cassius kept flailing throwing five punches to every one of Jones's piling up precious points. The huge crowd' knowing it was close, waited tensely for the verdict. Announcer Johnny Addie called for the mike. "Both judges score it five ... four ... one even-for Clay! Referee Joe Loscalzo scores...
...July 22, with Venus in perfect position for an easy encounter, Mariner I took off from Canaveral. For a while its Atlas climbed properly; then it began to yaw like a monstrous fish trying to shake a hook. All Canaveral watched in dismay as the great rocket snaked across the sky. The safety officer touched his destruct button, and the whole vehicle dissolved into a burst of orange flame and a shower of smoking shards...
...Hook is an ironical melodrama with an irenical moral: Love is the ultimate weapon and the absolute deterrent...
...Vassall spy case that he was the source for the Clough story that had linked Vassall's leaks to Russia with the subsequent appearance of Soviet "trawlers" near a top secret NATO sea exercise in the Atlantic. Taylor's admission was enough to get Clough off the hook, but his testimony also shed a curious light on a Fleet Street reporter's ability to treat the flimsiest of conjectures as fact...
...because Gary Player does. He cuts his ball nearly in half, trying to make it back up on the green just like Arnold Palmer. He crouches like Jack Nicklaus and peers curiously into the cup-looking for goodness knows what. When he smothers a drive, it is a "controlled hook," and when he shanks an approach, he is "opening up the green." He talks cunningly of "snakes" and "beaches" and "froghair,"* and he coyly buys hole-in-one insurance to pay for the party he is sure to host tomorrow or the day after...