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...Last month a Moscow economist proposed that the profit motive even be extended to agriculture, Russia's perennially insoluble problem. Last week in Trud, a trade official named Lazukov suggested that Russians should learn to advertise capitalist-style, with TV commercials, trailers in movie houses, and professional Madison Avenue men. Izvestia recently lamented that while the U.S. has 50 university-level business-management schools, Russia has none. Though the Russians insist none of this has anything to do with capitalism -at least in "essence"-the fact remains that Peking, which once complained that Russia was fast turning into "capitalism...
...himself. He touted Chuvalo as "the white hope," nicknamed him "The Washerwoman" for his rough, free-swinging style. Patterson was "The Rabbit"; Cassius went so far as to visit his training camp and present him with a bunch of carrots. The campaign worked like a charm: every one of Madison Square Garden's 18,400 seats was sold three days before the fight, and sidewalk scalpers were getting $10 for standing-room tickets. Closed-circuit TV carried the fight to 51 cities across the U.S. and Canada-with Clay doing the between-rounds commentary...
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...Stepinac Crusaders were already halfway through their pregame warm-ups by the time the boys from Manhattan's Power Memorial Academy finally showed up at Madison Square Garden. That was enough practice as far as Coach Nat Volpe was concerned. He ordered his team back to the locker room to await the start of the game. "I didn't want them to see him before they had to," he explained. Who was him? Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor...