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Muhammad Ali glowed in a white satin robe while Joe Frazier menaced in crushed velvet with "Smokin' Joe across the back. Still, the two ex-champ fighting last week in Madison Square Garden were all but lost sartorially to their fans. It was a crowd of funk-furred and metallic-threaded celebrities, including Chanteuse Bette Midler in jeans and mink, New York Knick Star Walt Frazier in a bold red and white blazer, Actor Jack Nicholson in loud pin stripes, Barbra Streisand in a sombrero, plus Senators Edward Kennedy and John Tunney in mufti. Ali Partisan John Kennedy...
...they were disappointed by the sudden end of the expedition, noting that before the trip, most of the anticipated problems were expected to grow out of cultural conflict. "Actually, there was very little of that," he said. "The chief was this great guy who walked around in a blue robe, a white turban, and a pair of black All-Star Converse tennis shoes...
...such presidential candidates as Thomas Dewey, Wendell Willkie and Dwight Eisenhower, Sirica was appointed a federal judge by Eisenhower in 1957. "Hell, yes, I'm a Republican," he still says. "You can't change a fellow's feelings just because you give him a judicial robe. But when I get on the bench, then I'm nothing. Politics is out then. Then it's my duty to search for the truth...
...masterful. Although you said early in that trial that you 'happened to be a Republican,' I am sure that you meant that you vote Republican. The Watergate case is the epitome of judicial nonpartisanship and a shining reflection of the fact that when you don your robe, you are neither a Republican nor a Democrat but simply a federal judge in search of the truth, no matter where it lies. I can only hope that if I am ever called upon to sit in a political case involving Democrats, I will have the courage to emulate your example...
...tasseled loafers, he has long been an avid Ping Pong player. On a visit to the U.S. a few years ago, he wandered through secondhand bookshops and bought a set of the complete works of Zane Grey; his favorite author, he once said, was Lloyd C. Douglas (The Robe), whose novels he discovered while he was in prison. He lives with his attractive, half-British second wife, Gehan, and their four children in a comfortable house at Giza, a Cairo suburb...