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After taking an eight-year knockout count, Harvard's biggest bugaboo of recent years, the professional tutoring school, has begun its climb from the canvas...
...moral portrait of an entire community. Kiss of Death, working in a darker, narrower field, among the criminals and policemen of a great city, lacks the older picture's richness of theme and its warmth, variety and brilliance. But in its own way it, too, is a clean knockout. It is also something new and welcome in U.S. crime movies. None of its criminals is glamorous, nor does anyone piously point out that crime does not pay. Nobody has to. The whole picture amply demonstrates the fact...
...Secretary of State George C. Marshall's policy of splendid isolation from the China civil war had led to a deadlock: neither the Government nor the Communists had enough strength for a knockout punch. As the opposing forces clinched wearily last week, China, bled white by the long struggle, took a new breath. The U.S.'s three-star General Albert C. Wedemeyer was on the way to see what could be done to retrieve the losses that followed from five-star General Marshall's indecisive decision...
...Nervous Knockout. Deep-sea divers generally have been fed pure oxygen and helium, pumped to a pressure matching the depth of their dive. Divers sometimes unaccountably passed out during relatively shallow dives (up to four atmospheres of pressure used to be considered safe). The British study, involving some 2,000 tests, proved that oxygen, forced into the tissues under pressure, somehow intoxicates the central nervous system and poisons the brain cortex. (Whales, biologists have observed, bypass the whole oxygen problem by collapsing their lungs during deep dives...
...press had built Heavyweight Bruce Woodcock, a conscientious pug-ugly, into a minor national symbol of hope. Then Joe Baksi, an invader from the U.S., rudely flattened the symbol by breaking Woodcock's jaw in the first round and going on to a seventh-round technical knockout. The BBC announcer made the fight sound as if a big bully had picked on a nice little man in the street who was harmlessly minding his own business...