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...strategy to sink a small destroyer and more than enough to sink Cassius Clay. For one thing, Liston is not going to stand in the center of the ring for seven rounds and watch Cassius dance around him, nor will he madly chase a fleeting shadow. Sonny stalks his prey with the relentless drive of a Sherman tank. Anyone who saw the second Liston-Patterson travesty noticed that Sonny is not slow; slower than Clay, yes, but certainly agile and savvy enough to catch Cassius in a corner...
...hours before the execution. The plot now changes from a moral drama to a horror story. The over-zealous prosecutor turns into a murderous ghoul ("I think the execution of the law upon an offender is something beautiful and moving") who will not be bilked of his prey. The brother, drawing off pursuit, crashes his car and gets disfigured by fire; the prosecutor, not seeing the difference, prepares to shoot the charred victim ("He's conscious, isn't he? That's all the law requires."). Mean-while McKenna, his faith restored by his brother's intended sacrifice, races...
...impotence of the former regime. But the functioning of the public powers-government and Parliament-as it is governed by our constitution, as it is applied, as it was confirmed last year by the nation, enables the state to decide and act. In the midst of so many countries prey to troubles, jolts, uncertainties, the French Republic appears as the very example of political stability. This has never been seen before...
...worked for British Intelligence under the code name Cynthia. Her real name: Elizabeth Pack. Using the boudoir as Ian Fleming's hero uses a Beretta, she was described by her wartime boss as "the greatest unsung heroine of the war." After the war Cynthia married her onetime prey, the ardent Charles, and with him retreated to a remote 10th century French chateau where she died last week, at 53, of throat cancer...
...readily because he himself seems to be undergoing an unhappily extended adolescence. His need to expose himself so utterly to young people reflects a kind of adolescent exhibitionism. By his candid confession, he is still wrestling with his own sexual unhappiness. Why then were these Harvard student such easy prey to Goodman's seductive approach...