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Eighty miles away in the Pennsylvania Dutch country, Muhammad Ali sings the Tennessee Waltz while he spars with Light-Heavyweight Boss Man Jones. "He's got me in the coffin, but he can't nail me," Ali boasts. "He fights like a woman." Ali clinches with Jones and dances round the ring at his isolated, frontier-style training complex, where he sleeps in a cabin equipped with pump-handle faucets and coal stoves. "Tie him up," Ali laughs. "Waltz with him. That's the way you stall for time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Picking Foreman's Foe | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

December 15: Harvard swimming versus Army. The Cadets didn't want to swim against the Crimson's J.V.s, so they got blown out of the water, 98-15. Harvard took every first, and all but one second place in that nail-biter...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Rock Steady | 1/22/1974 | See Source »

James H. (Herb) Nail, a Hughes official in charge of land acquisition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Indicting Hughes | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...administration nestled in an all-white community, strike out at the whites. The black parents voluntarily commit their kids to this school transfer program because they believe their kids can get a better education at Madison than they can at the decaying neighborhood school. White parents fight tooth and nail the entrance of more black kids into the school because they fear the fall of property values and they can't afford to exit the scene. And teachers at Madison, who would prefer to have the children of lawyers and doctors as their students, children who don't cut class...

Author: By Fran Schumer, | Title: Prisoners of Class | 12/20/1973 | See Source »

...triumphant procession may be an abortive one, however. Holy Cross, supporting a front-line with an average height of almost 6 ft. 9 in., threatens to nail the Crimson to the backboards...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: Cagers to Battle Holy Cross | 12/18/1973 | See Source »

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