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...discover that Gene Tunney occasionally read books. So there is no telling how much damage Italy's Giovanni Benvenuti, 29, may do to the image of the sport. Imagine a prizefighter who looks like a Beatle, reads Voltaire, listens to Chopin, and trains on vintage wine. Actually, "Nino" Benvenuti never got past high school in his native Trieste, and something may be lost in the translation, since he speaks only Italian. But his interpreter at least uses words like "impetus" and "counterproductive," and ascribes to Nino such thoughtful pronouncements as "literature is a teacher of life, even more than...
...Many Butts. And maybe the dirtiest. Angered by Benvenuti's prefight predictions of victory, Griffith hit on the break and after the bell, repeatedly rubbed the laces of his gloves in Nino's face, butted open a gash on Nino's nose-and managed one legitimate looping right that knocked him down for a five count. Benvenuti still made good his boast. Ignoring the blood that was streaming from his nose, he decked Griffith with a right uppercut in the second round. Counterpunching beautifully, making full use of his 3-in. advantage in reach, he kept Emile...
...ironic that the Righteous Brothers, who got their first big break (so legend goes) by doing a great warm-up act before the Beatles' Los Angeles performance of 1964, brought with them two warm-up groups who strove to outdo each other only in tastelessness. Nino Temple and April Stevens once had a hit with a sappy 1930's revival called "Deep Purple." They spent their time on stage making bad jokes about his virility and displaying her eroticism to the worst advantage. Gaylord and Holliday, a comedy team, did a wonderful parody of Sonny and Cher's "Bang-Bang...
Died. Giuseppe ("Nino") Farina, 59, Italian auto racer who in 1950 was the first driver to be named World Grand Prix champion, but is almost as well remembered for surviving countless accidents, including one grisly debacle in Argentina in 1953, when he swerved to avoid a wandering child only to cut down five people in the crowd; of injuries following the crash of his Ford-Cortina-Lotus while pleasure-driving in the French Alps near Chamb...
...speak about the restless spirit of modern youth in timely catchwords. A fille de frug wearing topless finery is whisked aloft at a wild students' ball in Paris. Sean Connery appears briefly, creating instant Bondomania. The troubles in Viet Nam and Santo Domingo are touched upon. Finally, Hero Nino Castelnuovo, as a young Italian making the Paris scene, comes right out with it: "Don't you feel a new world is in the making...