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When one prizefighter hits another in the head, his objective is to render the opponent temporarily unconscious by a simple concussion, which usually leaves no permanent damage. But a hard blow can also bruise the brain, breaking some of its blood vessels and destroying nerve cells. This kind of damage can kill. The death in Manhattan last week of Benny ("Kid") Paret, 25, after nine days in a coma, from brain injuries suffered in his world championship bout with Emile Griffith, underscored the charge that "in boxing, the aim is to maim...
Signor Nervi delivered his lecture in Italian with the help of an interpreter to render the English translation...
...Moslem terrorists draw no line between the journalists and the French colonists. But the Moslems are not the only danger. From the carefully considered terror of the S.A.O. no newsman is safe. In an earlier day, the S.A.O. welcomed both French and foreign reporters, believing-wrongly-that they would render support for an Algérie Française. Arriving newsmen were met at the airport by S.A.O. representatives; with S.A.O. leaders, interviews were easy to obtain...
...writes Michael McClure, and furthermore, WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP Most action poets profess to take religion seriously, "via crucis vicar son of a bitch render out with magnificat," cries Ebbe Borregaard, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the wittiest of them, writes of a "wiggy prophet . . . gentle as the lamb of God/made into mad cutlets." Many action poets describe "religious visions" induced by narcotics; conversely, one poet speaks of "getting a fix at the altar." Even more important than religion to most action poets is sex, but more important than either is excrement. Excrement is sacrament. They sprinkle it around like holy...
...conviction that God is on our side. As he wryly comments, "God is never so fashionable as during wartime." Because both sides confidently act out of conscience, we may be plunged into another war. And our "genetic affinity for the weapon," now developed to astonishing efficiency, may render it our last...