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...doing to the fight game and its top honor. Like unctuous clergy defrocking a black sheep priest, they mumbled about heresy and the sovereignty of the faith as if pugilism were the true church of Christ in Everlast and Fat City the terminus of the Celestial Railroad. So, they shore Ali of his title, and with silent supplications for the second coming of the Great White Hope, called for a new idol...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Say It Ain't So, Says Joe | 1/31/1973 | See Source »

...course of her mission. Having sacrificed practically all she own when she finally does deliver the ransom, she collapses hysterically in her aged lover's arms, only to find that he has duped her. The ransom was a profiteering hoax, and he leaves her stranded on the African shore...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: An Old Man's Daydreams | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...their jaws with appropriate conviction. How does Bond, who has been placed by Mr. Big on a little island in the middle, escape? He throws them some chicken heads, which were supposed to attract the killers to himself, and while the crocodiles are dining, walks across their backs to shore. Of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The New Face of 007 | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

...football team) before he knew Jack. Described as "incredibly naive," "actually as soft as a marshmallow," "not a simple man but many different simple men," Bobby clearly was O'Donnell's favorite Kennedy. Dave Powers knew one side of Jack Kennedy: the man off duty, on shore leave from Father, Harvard and public office. But nobody, the memoirists concede, really knew Jack Kennedy except Bobby, and what Bob by knew he kept to himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Long Goodbye | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

Preserving Shores. While the Mammoth decision was creating these mammoth problems, the state's voters approved an initiative to control all development within 1,000 ft. of California's entire coastline. To continue any project started after last March 31, or to build any new project, developers would first have to get a permit from one of six new regional commissions. This slows the rush to build on the shore line-and theoretically prevents any environmentally harmful projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Saving the Bright Land | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

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