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Manager Marv Jenson saw the scrap with more cautious clarity. Across the ring he saw the lithe and light-foot memory of a great champion, the dark and dangerous shadow of a man who had once been the finest fist fighter of his generation. And Jenson worried lest Sugar Ray, at 36, reach back across the years for one of those wickedly coordinated punches that could end a fight in an instant. "Just keep going the way you have," he told his boy. "Be careful. Don't open...
Just getting a crack at Sugar Ray was the toughest scrap of all. Jenson had to settle for 12½% of the gate, or $20.915. Robinson pocketed $78,190 of the gate receipts, plus $60,000 of the TV and radio income, of which Fullmer got none...
...Game," the almost always spirited Army-Navy scrap for the service championship, was a big bust. Army fumbled away chances to run up a score; Navy scuttled its own attack while its sloppy defense did little more than watch the soldiers stop themselves. The game ended, as it should have, in a 7-7 tie, and then, as it should have, the Naval Academy refused an invitation to the Cotton Bowl...
...company to compete in foreign markets? Answered the U.S. Supreme Court last week: it can indeed. By a 4-to-4 tie vote (Justice Harlan disqualified himself from the case), the court let stand a lower-court ruling that Holophane Co., maker of prismatic glassware, must not only scrap all agreements with foreign companies to split up world markets but actively push its products overseas regardless of foreign laws or its own economic best interest. Snapped Justice Hugo Black, incredulously, during the hearing: "Is what you are saying this: that a distiller must go out and do everything...
...Best Defense. In Cleveland, on the day he was supposed to testify at his trial on charges of robbing a grocery, Robert E. Crawford was arrested, charged with stealing three tons of scrap metal from a transit-system yard...