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...That night Mrs. Johnnie Mae Chappell, a Negro housewife with nine children, was walking along U.S. Highway 1 outside Jacksonville, her arms laden with grocery sacks. She dropped her purse, and as she bent to retrieve it, a car roared by; shots rang out, and Mrs. Chappell fell dead. Carlos Gonzales, standing outside a nearby bar, was shot in the head at the same time. Before dawn, a dozen buildings were fire-bombed by rampaging Negro youths, and cops found themselves using a new emergency radio call: "516," meaning "juveniles with incendiaries...
...group of soldiers and forced to wait outside the car for about twenty minutes. Actually, this provided us with a relatively safe viewpoint from which to watch the soldiers in action. They seemed content to let the more efficient police restore order; the streets cleared rapidly and occasional shots rang out, often fired into a trash can "for effect...
...warning buzzer for Round 7 rang, and Cassius mentally began ticking off the seconds to the bell. Across the ring, Liston spat out his mouthpiece. Clay blinked: Liston was not coming out. With a wild whoop, Cassius leaped to his feet, gloves high above his head. The fight was over-and Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was the new heavyweight champion of the world. Round the ring he danced, leering down at the sportswriters and bellowing gleefully: "Eat your words...
...bell rang for the seventh the crowd was treated to the sight of Cassius dancing to the center of the ring in a comic display of shadow-boxing. Liston sat sullenly in his corner as doctors and trainers hovered over him. For a moment it was not clear what had happened. Then, suddenly, Cassius leaped into the air, arms raised, screaming like a madman, "I won, I won, I won, I am the greatest, greatest, greatest." Jack Nilon, Liston's manager, had stopped the fight. Nilon later explained that the injury to Liston's left shoulder in the first round...
...chief issue for the forthcoming election, demanded an investigation by a Royal Commission and went on the radio to decry the "miserably inadequate" research facilities provided by the government. Liberal Party Chief Jo Grimond pointed to the low prestige that Britain grants its intellectuals. "The citizens of Konigsberg rang church bells when Immanuel Kant recovered from a cold," he said. "Here nobody even gave one cheer for our scientists until they started to leave the country...