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Momma, Momma, Momma. Cassius' narcissistic posturing was not meant to convince. "Actually," he confided, "I respect Liston. That look of his shakes me." It was meant to humor, to prod, to annoy, to con Champion Liston into thinking that a young (22), tall (6 ft. 3 in.), sturdy (210 Ibs.) heavyweight with 119 amateur and pro victories behind him would be easy pickings for the man-monster who had twice butchered Floyd Patterson. And, my, how he succeeded, thanks to his unwitting accomplices, the sportswriters...
...requests, Jazz Pianist Thelonious Monk would mutter, "All reet," greatly confusing Chaliapin. When he finally caught on, Chaliapin replied in Russian-accented retaliation: "All root." During four sittings Thelonious had a disconcerting habit of dropping off to sleep. Chaliapin would yell at him, "Monk, Monk, wake up!", then prod him out of his armchair and walk him around the studio. Says he: "Monk's very strange-in the best sense of the word." As for Thelonious, it took him about a week to learn to pronounce the painter's name. Having mastered it, he improvised a song that...
...that a white-haired employee earned 84? a day. At week's end Chou flew up to Rawalpindi and was warmly greeted by handsome Ayub Khan, wearing a jaunty astrakhan hat. Here the street banners read DOWN WITH INDIAN IMPERIALISM IN KASHMIR, but if they were intended to prod Chou into a public expression of support against India, they failed. The two leaders toasted each other with gold-edged crystal goblets, were served by a retinue of turbaned, white-clad waiters, and exchanged platitudes about peace, friendship and Afro-Asian unity...
...self-defeating," she explains. "It raises hackles." For all that, there are probably a lot of vertical hackles in the housing developments along Skyline Boulevard. Mrs. Reynolds herself lives in an apartment. "Conformity is not a really dreadful thing," she says, "but it's fun to prod it a little...
...Treasury officials have urged European governments for months to enact reforms that would make it easier to raise capital in their financial centers, but genuine progress has been negligible. Last week Washington finally took an unusual step to prod the Europeans. The Treasury issued a book-size document that draws highly critical comparisons between Europe's creaking, suspicious and medieval bond and stock markets and the wide-open, well-heeled U.S. markets. Europe's capital markets, said Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, "are not as efficient and as effective as they might be, and as they will need...