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Three rounds. That's all. After waiting more than three years for an honest chance, it took an obsessed Marvin Hagler only nine minues and 45 seconds to dispose of England's Alan Minter and become the undisputed middleweight champion of the world...
Brockton's Marvelous Marvin Hagler will take on Britain's Alan Minter today in a scheduled 15-round world middleweight championship bout at Wembley Stadium in London, England...
Hagler lost his chance at the crown last year when he drew with Vito Antuofermo, whom Minter subsequently defeated twice--once by decision, once by an eighth-round knockout...
Elsewhere, Virginia creamed Texas and California to win the Certamen-a classical version of the College Bowl quiz -with state teams battling it out onstage over the lingua mater. "What case is required for the object of vescorl" shot out Questioner James Minter, 25, a candidate at Columbia University for a Ph.D. in classics. Flashing lights signaled the correct answer: "The ablative." Sample sticklers: "What Italian myth figure changed into a woodpecker?" "What Latin emperor was transformed, in a satire, into a pumpkin?" Answers: Picus and Claudius...
...arcanum shows signs of reviving Latin, along with the current educational drift back to basics. New courses in mythology and literature in translation have attracted students too. One innovative, popular program-used in ghetto schools to reinforce basic English grammar-even teaches conversational Latin by audiovisual methods. Besides, says Minter, "the classics still have a snob appeal-which we try to play to the hilt...