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...face. In the eleventh round, Cassius staggered Chuvalo with a flurry of combinations; in the 13th, he landed at least 30 solid punches-left jabs, left hooks, straight rights, right uppercuts. By the end of the 15th round, Chuvalo's eyes were slits; he was cut on the scalp and right eyebrow, and blood was trickling from his nose. But he was still standing-like "a stunted redwood," wrote New York Timesman Robert Lipsyte-rooted to the canvas of the ring...
...personality whose mere presence raised the hair on a spectator's scalp. Above all, he was a pianist of fantastic splendor, acknowledged today as the mightiest technician of all time...
...Western adventurer: "We did not dream how commerce and gold would breed nations along the Pacific, the disenchanting screech of the locomotive break the spell of weird mysterious mountains, women's rights invade the fastnesses of the Arapahoes, and despairing savagery, assailed in front and rear, vail its scalp-locks and feathers before the triumphant commonplace." Or, Parkman might add today, how a security-minded society and government would seek to remove all risk from the life of the citizen. Have prosperity and a plenitude of leisure softened the American, converting him into a creature fit only for paper...
...with 10% five years ago. Says John A. Maloney, a Cambridge, Mass., barber who specializes in shearing Harvard students: "They come in and want it trimmed as long as possible. I use scissors and a comb. There's no place to use a clipper. There's no scalp to get close...
...them in the thalamus itself. The electrodes are left in place and cause no pain in the insensitive brain. The little wounds where their connecting wires pass through the skull soon heal, and connections to the ''pain box" are readily attached through a permanent plug on the scalp...