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BOSTON, Jan. 21--Virgil Akins knocked weary Tony DeMarco into virtual fistic obscurity tonight with a 12th round technical knockout in a brutal rematch of welterweights at Boston Garden...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Akins Fells DeMarco with TKO | 1/22/1958 | See Source »

...Force: The surest guarantee of protection is offensive-not defensive-power. The tremendous cost of a defensive missile program would seriously compete with the evolving knockout strike force. Moreover, to stop an ICBM effectively-once its course is determined-an anti-ICBM must be launched into the trajectory from the target vicinity, and ICBM targets in the U.S. will be strike-force bases, not cities; therefore, even Nike sites are already wasted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Something for a Scabbard | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...even the calligraphy of brush strokes is anathema, a romantic hangover from the days when the viewer, willy-nilly, could follow the painter's hand, guess and second-guess his intentions and hesitations. Soulages. with his plank-sized strokes, aims to hit the spectator with one knockout blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Knockout Blow | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...remain unvaccinated. Among the 42 million in the 20 to 40 age group, 28 million remain unvaccinated, but distributors and druggists now have 23 million shots in stock. Said HEW Secretary Marion B. Folsom: "If people will use the vaccine available, it is possible to give paralytic polio a knockout blow within the next year. It will be a tragedy if, simply because of public apathy, vaccine which might prevent paralysis or even death lies on the shelf unused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Decline | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...young man's blows bouncing off arms and shoulders. When Archie rolled out of his shell, his still-swift hands were right on target. Only the bell saved Anthony at the end of the sixth round; it did not ring soon enough to save him from a knockout in the seventh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Man's Cunning | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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