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...short, happy life as heavyweight champ, Ingemar Johansson (see SPORT) found U.S. advertisers beating a path to his throne with blank checks and myriad products for him to endorse-everything from Pioneer key rings to Man-Tan and Lord West tuxedos. Only a few went away disappointed. Among them: a vacuum cleaner manufacturer who wanted the champ to lie down on a rug in the ad, and a group of prosperous salami makers who wanted Ingo to pose beside a pile of salami (Ingo agreed to do it, but not for hay: he asked...
...rice fields stretching south of Saigon seem quiet enough as farmers in conical hats go about their tasks of burning off the stubble of the last harvest or deepening the myriad canals in expectation of the first rains. At sunset the war begins...
...Myriad Laws. Even marrying a young man as Europeanized as herself has its drawbacks. Many African men profess to be Christians, but enjoy the best of two worlds by having one church wife and several tribal ones. Under Uganda law such bigamy is punishable by five years in jail, but the law is rarely applied. Said a social worker: "If it were, the entire African aristocracy would be in prison...
Forms in motion demonstrate the depths of space, and dramatize it in myriad ways. For example, a galloping horse imparts one kind of life to the loop of a mile-long track, and a man making the same circuit in a wheelchair gives it quite another. Even a static sculptured figure can dramatize space somewhat, as by seeming to point or to run. But can sculpture ever convey the sense of rapid, elaborate motion through space that almost every child of the steel age daily experiences? "Yes," says Norbert Kricke of Duesseldorf, and his does...
Alarmed by the relative lethargy of local hygiene authorities and fearing for the health of their myriad readers, the editors of Cambridge's only breakfast table daily have unanimously decided that this afternoon and evening will be spent in a massive, dedicated campaign to conflscate all cranberries or cranberry sauces in the Boston area. Because this praiseworthy project will strike deeply at the paper's manpower, by supreme executive flat it has been declared that there will be no Crime tomorrow...