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Musically, one performance is a knockout. Shannon Scarry, as a gangster's moll hasn't got a great deal of voice, but she uses her limitations to good comic effect when she sings, and when she dances she doesn't have any limitations. There's also one solid comic performance, by Richard Rockefeller, who plays the broad Englishman like he should never play anything else...
Offers Refused. The three teen-agers told police that Weinstein had once given them $100 to kill a student, which they refused to do, and four other times begged them to murder students whom he had drugged. Weinstein used chloral hydrate (knockout drops) disguised in mustard and spread on hamburgers to drug his young friends, said the boys. He had also bragged to them of killing a student earlier in the year and burying his body in a cellar...
...comfort U.S. televiewers to learn that European programming has its shortcomings too. The highest TV rating in the history of Eurovision went last week to Games Without Boundaries (called It's a Knockout in Britain), a sort of Hellzapoppin' Olympics that would make Truth or Consequences seem comparatively cerebral. Yet the six-nation finals pulled more than 70 million viewers in six countries...
...fight promoters and their underworld bosses found him fresh from lifting weights in a European circus. As a fighter he was a joke, but fixed bouts and blaring publicity led to a payday championship match with the slipping Jack Sharkey. Incredibly, Camera won-on a lucky sixth-round knockout. He lasted only a year, until Max Baer took away his title with eleven knockdowns in eleven rounds. Camera returned to Italy penniless, his purses siphoned away by his handlers, finally settling into a clownish career as a wrestler...
...smiling Presidents met at Cairo International Airport last week, Podgorny took Nasser's hand and held it high in a boxer's victory gesture. It was almost as if a dazed Sonny Liston, having just been counted out, had staggered to his feet and claimed a knockout over Cassius Clay. "We will fight to victory," the airport crowds chanted. "Down with American imperialism...