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...have every right and probably much reason to regret that Cassius has provided the Muslims with a public forum for their philosophy. We may hope like hell that Floyd Patterson can work his way up the heavyweight ladder, defeat Clay, and then quietly preach the Urban League doctrine from the throne. Or, we might wish for the good old days when fighters fought, kept their social and religious convictions to themselves, and left the civil rights movement for quicker minds to deal with...
...precision of a surgeon, the intuition of an actor, the guesswork of a tea-leaf reader. Professor Harry Kalven Jr., director of an extensive University of Chicago jury study, confirms the belief of most prosecutors and defense attorneys that persons on the lower rungs of the economic and social ladder tend to be more sympathetic to the accused. The well-to-do, on the other hand, are likely to have greater respect for authority and the law. The most elite panel, New York State's "blue-ribbon" jury, is used almost exclusively to hear complex civil and criminal cases...
...Rocky dropped in on Albany long enough to pose with a bunch of Boy Scouts, looking for all the world as if he were the one who had just been awarded the Eagle badge. But he devoted most of his energy to New Hampshire. He climbed a 5-ft. ladder to shake hands with three girls who were leaning out of a second-story window in Dover, dropped in at a Contoocook beauty parlor to chat with the ladies, and only once during the week did he seem slightly rattled. That came during a visit to Mount Sunapee State Park...
Last year Harvard won only one match at number one; the team took its matches by winning at the bottom of the ladder. This time again the pressure will be on the lower players: John Vinton, Terry Robinson, Bill Morris, and Alan Terrell...
Vinton was the number six player on the team until last week when he came rocketing up the ladder as a result of a series of challenge matches...