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By the middle of the fourth round it was evident that Clay's lightning left jab would be in Patterson's face throughout the fight. The challenger tried countering with his patented leaping left and lunging right, but even on the rare occasions when they landed Clay seemed totally unperturbed...

Author: By James Toback, | Title: Ali Takes Twelve Rounds To TKO Outclassed Floyd | 11/23/1965 | See Source »

Women's Wear Daily, which is more authoritative about see-throughs than breakthroughs, came up with the farthest-out rumor of all. The blackout, it said, was caused by the test of a super-secret Pentagon weapon called "Fireball," whose object was to draw all available power from New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Northeast: The Disaster That Wasn't | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

For a fellow who escaped the stigma of being a high school dropout only by never dropping in, James R. Jones, 37-year-old Grand Dragon of the North Carolina realm of the Ku Klux Klan, lives mighty high on the hog. Though he never progressed past grammar school and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Carolina: A Kleagle Eagle | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

The Gadgetry. Also at work for the U.S. in Viet Nam is an array of ingenious gadgetry that smacks of baling wire-and of Buck Rogers. Puff the Magic Dragon is an old C-47 transport rigged with three 7.62 Gatling-type guns -each a fascine of six machine-gun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A New Kind of War | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

looks preshrunk, forlorn, anonymous, an obsequious undertaker in a tight black suit-except that dark eyes of mourning seem to have been burned into his head with a blowtorch. He is pale, wary, jumpy, an urban night monkey traveling in the jungle of cities from Paris to New York. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Of Love & Deeper Sorrows | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

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