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Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS radio & TV). For the light heavyweight championship: Archie Moore v. Joey Maxim...
When a man is Vice President in Tito's Yugoslavia, a maxim for staying on good terms with the boss is: never, never poll more votes than the President. In the election last November, Milovan Djilas, No. 3 man in the Yugoslav hierarchy and one of its four Vice Presidents, broke the rule...
...known to the tabloids as the "Big Dame Hunter," but was just the son of an impoverished Dominican Republic general, a personable lad who wasted energy boxing and playing soccer. Rubi had been brought up in Paris before daddy lost his dinero, wanted to get back to Maxim's, and soon launched his career...
Last spring, the Rockefeller Foundation decided to take some of the teeth out of this old composers' maxim, and began by bestowing a $400,000 grant on the Louisville Orchestra to enlarge that orchestra's program for commissioning and performing new works. One afternoon last week, while a goodly portion of the upper-middlebrow musical world waited for news of the proceedings, Louisville launched the new series...
...pants, and the job has been good to him. In a typical workday (lately as minister counselor), he might play polo at Deauville, or catch the races at Auteuil. Evenings, unless he happened to be spreading joy in Cannes or Monte Carlo, he usually liked to start early at Maxim...