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...final will be an all-Leverett affair with Charles Delony, last year's runner-up, fighting Ralph Dittman. Delony registered the day's only knockout yesterday when he downed Dieter Wahl of Kirkland House with a right cross in the second round...
Wherever they looked last week, the leaders of North Viet Nam saw trouble. To the north, Red China was convulsed by violence. Below the 17th parallel, the U.S. and its allies were preparing a knockout blow against the Communist "main force" units, which were already reeling from 1966 losses of 50,000 men in combat and 20,000 defectors...
Several antibiotics are effective against the infection, and because the disease is so severe, doctors have been inclined to combine them, hoping for a fast knockout. As Dr. Wehrle puts it, "There is a fixed and mystical belief that if one antibiotic is good, two must be better, and three even more efficacious." Not so, the Wehrle team found. In a twelve-month study at Los Angeles County General Hospital, every meningitis patient got intravenous ampicillin, a fast-acting form of penicillin, while alternate patients received, in addition, chloramphenicol and streptomycin. There were five deaths among 129 patients on ampicillin...
...Knockout Punch. Behind the rapid-fire left jabs of its M16s, the infantry squad carries a knockout punch in the blunderbuss-shaped M-79 grenade launcher. "Beautiful little seventy-niners," the Marines call them, particularly when a 40-mm. grenade-spring-loaded with half-inch steel barbs -pops in the middle of a Viet Cong position 385 yds. away. The M-79 has two drawbacks: it is only a single-shot weapon (good grenadiers get off 16 rounds per minute), and its grenades are armed only after a flight of 30 meters through the air-in order to protect...
...only took a little more than seven minutes last night for Cassius Clay to dispose of Cleveland "Big Cat" Williams by a technical knockout at the Astrodome in Houston. Clay floored the listless 33-year-old challenger four times before the referee stopped the fight after 1:08 of the third round...