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...there/ If he thinks he can beat this dy-no-mite mayor," taunted Jackson. Riposted Ali, "He don't want to brag and he thinks he's so hip/ If he keeps talking trash, I'll pop him in the lip." Last week, the poetaster-pugilists stepped into the ring at Atlanta's Southeastern Fair Grounds to celebrate Black Atlanta Week. Just the sight of Jackson in gargantuan batik swimming trunks was too much for Ali, and when the mayor threw a near miss past the champ's jaw, Ali went down for the count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 3, 1975 | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

...fragile and temporary at best. To many in Angola, it smacks of the same slapdash arrangements the Belgians made before handing the Congo over to bloody civil war in 1960. The majority think it is little more than an improvised device to get rid of Angola with meaningless lip service to safeguards for whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANGOLA: Fragile Independence | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

...night before last, as if he hasn't given us enough sublime moments in the last 15 years, the Louisville Lip served up his best stuff yet. Right, right, right, left, right into George Foreman's face. He could have hammered a few more chops into the lumbering oaf's slow-motion descending bulk. Instead, he stood off and let the fallen False One find his own center of gravity in the middle of the canvas...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: View From the Attic | 10/31/1974 | See Source »

...image of the plastic Pat may be frozen into the public mind for all time now. The last sustained view of her was at the White House, while her husband bade farewell to his staff. For a moment, tears glistened in her eyes and she bit her lip to hold them back; then her incredible self-discipline reasserted itself. After that she disappeared into the house at San Clemente and Into the solitude that has so often been part of her life as a politician's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Three Women on The Firing Line | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...Giulio Tarro, 36, of the University of Naples had conducted between 1967 and 1973. The study, signed jointly by Sabin and Tarro, found antibodies produced in the body in reaction to the presence of the herpes simplex Type I and Type II viruses in patients with cancers of the lip, mouth, nose and throat, kidney, bladder, prostate, cervix and vulva. It turned up no trace of the viruses in patients with 28 other malignancies, or in patients without cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Premature Indictment? | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

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