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Once, Ring magazine picked him as its "Promising Fighter of the Month"-but that was in 1958, and the promise was mostly unfulfilled. He lost almost as often as he won (ten wins, seven losses, three draws), and it was not long before Ernie Knox, 26, was eking out an un certain living from part-time jobs and unemployment checks. But always there was that dream of the big time...
...investigating the circumstances of Ernie's death. By week's end it had turned up two shocking bits of information. Ernie's cut of the $1,620 purse was hardly enough to pay his burial expenses. It came to $243. And at the city morgue, Ernie Knox's body weighed only 153 Ibs. The boxing commission sheepishly admitted that Knox had been permitted to weigh in with his clothes on. Said the autopsy surgeon: "All you had to do was look at this kid's body to know he didn't weigh...
...whole this has been a pretty ordinary year. There was the test ban treaty, of course, but we were due for a period of cooperation with the Russians. The economy has remained pretty stable, corporate profits are good, gold is flowing from Fort Knox as usual, the normal number of governments have been overthrown, and the Yankees won the American League pennant...
...have historically evolved like two separate streams that shift course from time to time but never quite join. The best-known Protestant translations of Scripture in English, the King James and Revised Standard versions, come essentially from the original Hebrew and Greek; such Catholic editions as the Douay and Knox Bibles follow St. Jerome's 4th century Latin Vulgate. For centuries, the churches have stressed the differences. Now the two streams seem destined to join in a common Bible that would be acceptable to all Christians...
...already in plentiful supply in the normal U.S. diet. In some cases, the sun also helps in clearing up acne and eczema, but excess exposure leaves the skin wrinkled, coarse and leathery like the back of a cowboy's neck. In a study directed by Dermatologist John M. Knox of Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston, the most noticeable degenerative changes in skin tissues were found to be related not to age but to the areas of greatest exposure to the elements. "The visible cutaneous changes usually interpreted as aging," says the report, "are apparently due largely...