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The Ali that Frazier will meet in the ring is a different kind of fighter from the man who took Liston's heavyweight title away in 1964. Then he was still calling himself Cassius Clay, and the jaunty slogan of his training camp was "Float like a butterfly, sting like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bull v. Butterfly: A Clash of Champions | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

The ARVN advance was almost glacial -slowed by twisting terrain, mud that sucked at tank treads, and fears of rushing headlong into what Vice Premier Nguyen Cao Ky described last week as "our Dien Bien Phu." Instead of a lightning strike, the ARVN invasion commander, Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Indochina: The Soft-Sell Invasion | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

For the next 20 years he studied war at the head of a ragtag army of freebooters in the Alpine foothills and civil administration as lord of his duchy of Dauphiné. Skill at foreign affairs and espionage he seemed to acquire by osmosis. Stumping around in rough clothes, sneering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: And to Hell with Burgundy | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

WHEN I got to Mulligan's Junction, Ga., on my trip South, I wanted to go on to Pelican Swamp, and I asked the old Yankee conductor of the Lightning Express when it would leave for that point. "Wal," he replied, chimerically, "if Bill gets the wood sawed and split...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Through the Past, Howsomever- The Crimson, 1876 | 2/12/1971 | See Source »

Many times the antiwar movement has pointed to some new U. S. atrocity and proclaimed that this was it, the point of no return, the worst that could happen. That will no longer serve; it is clear that Nixon holds much worse in store if he is allowed to pursue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: March Today | 2/10/1971 | See Source »

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