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...even defeat by Joe Frazier has halted Muhammad All's interminable chatter. Upon his arrival in Lima, Peru, on his latest Latin American junket, Ali talked nonstop: "Most whites are bad, but I don't hate them. I just don't want to integrate with them." Was there anything he feared more than Frazier's fists? "I don't fear nothing. Oh no, I fear the tax collector more than anything else in the world." Muhammad, the former heavyweight champion, has good reason. Of the almost $30 million he has earned in the ring...
...passions and factionalism of Irish politics compel him to perform a nonstop tightrope act between moderates and militants; he is working for a peaceful solution to the ageless "Irish question" while trying to avoid an outright collision with the Irish Republican Army, whose most extreme faction is trying to shoot its way to a reunification of Ireland, north and south...
Died. Bennett Cerf, 73, book publisher (Random House), nonstop punster and professional TV gamesman; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. After graduating from Columbia in 1919, Cerf bought his way into the book trade as a vice president of Boni & Liveright; in 1925 he borrowed from a wealthy uncle on Wall Street to buy the Modern Library from that failing firm for $200,000, later used its reprint profits to form a new company that would publish books at random, hence the name Random House. Despite his latter-day public reputation as syndicated humorist and smirking jokester of TV's What...
Chancellor won a reputation among his NBC colleagues as an "iron man" for talking 90 minutes nonstop on camera in November 1960 while he and the rest of the national press waited for John Kennedy to arrive at the Hyannis armory to make the presidential-election victory statement. During the 1964 Republican Convention, he was hustled bodily off the floor by a sergeant at arms attempting to clear the aisles. "It's awfully hard to remain dignified at a time like this," Chancellor ad-libbed. As he faded from the screen, he solemnly intoned: "This is John Chancellor, somewhere...
...members of the plane crew would have known whom they were transporting. Kissinger could easily pass for just another British businessman. The fact that a Pakistan plane was taking off for Peking was nothing out of the ordinary. The Chinese lack long-range jets that can make the nonstop flight between Rawalpindi and Peking. Under a bilateral agreement, Pakistan Airlines has been carrying passengers and freight between the two capitals on both regular and unscheduled runs. Thus Kissinger's aircraft would have caused no stir when it left for Peking...