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...being interviewed by Howard Cosell. During the melee, Cosell's hairpiece came unstuck-and so did the tournament. LeDoux later charged fix, claiming that Boudreaux was among a stable of fighters managed by King associates. Paddy Flood and Al Braverman. According to LeDoux, their pugs had a lock on the championships, receiving preferential booking in the tournament and the special favors of judges. After the fight, a federal grand jury was convened in Baltimore to investigate the charges. Indictments are expected...
...anarchist to take more direct action and stages a sit-in at the magazine office which misrepresented her husband. Her two fellow anarchists are anxious for dinner, however, and leave Mother K. sitting alone on the floor. Finally, the night watchman asks her to leave so he can lock-up. He invites her home for a dinner of "Heaven and Earth" (German sausages and apple dumplings) and she leaves with him. He has told her exactly what she wanted to hear all along. He "knew those magazine stories were all lies right away...
...1930s, has had cataract operations on both eyes, and wears sunglasses and a sun visor on the court. But none of the ailments of the Super-Seniors is as celebrated as that of L. Roe Campbell, 77, secretary-treasurer of the organization, who three years ago faced surgery to lock his right wrist in place. Undaunted, Campbell arrived at the hospital on the day of the operation carrying a tennis racquet. Instructing the surgeon to watch closely, he held the racquet in an Eastern forehand grip. "Lock the wrist just so," he ordered. Campbell's forehand, opponents complain...
...overcrowding" at MCI is due largely to his own system of prisoner classification. The prisoners he has crowded together there are new, young inmates, for whom the proposed construction is not even intended. Even within the deceptive immediacy of Commissioner Hall's own argument, the construction of four new lock-ups, whose five-year cost to the Commonwealth would range from $60-$80 million, cannot be substantiated...
...learn more about the taste buds. Spread across the tongue, these clusters of cells are sensitive to the four major taste sensations: sweet, sour, bitter and salt. Physiologists believe that parts of the food molecules actually fit loosely into receptors on the cells, somewhat like a key in a lock, thereby sending a signal to the appropriate center in the brain. If the structure of the sites could ever be determined precisely, chemists might be able to fashion matching molecules that produced the desired taste sensations...