Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local TV talk show, ALI (who lost his title after refusing induction into the military) lay in wait outside the studio. When Frazier emerged, Ali hit him in the shoulder with a long, looping right. Before followers could restrain both fighters, Ali threw another punch that fell short. "If Clay gets a license to fight, we'll fight him," Frazier's manager said afterward. "Until then, we're willing to use him as a sparring partner...
...short, the vast majority of campuses are quiet-so far. But for the chronic trouble spots (roughly 25 schools), the new year has just begun...
...their own world in a sort of college-age Lord of the Flies. In the opener, they played Hobbes with themselves and plausibility. The life of the series should be nasty, brutish and-considering New People's kamikaze time slot opposite Laugh-In and Here's Lucy-short...
When they first met for a lunchtime date in Boston, she thought he was short and unimpressive. But she soon noticed that "he became better-looking as he talked, so strongly and convincingly." Coretta Scott soon found, too, that "M. L. King Jr.," as he called himself, made quick decisions. By the end of the date, he had told her that she "had everything I have ever wanted in a wife." As she observes in this fond memoir of their 15 years together, "it was as if he had no time for mistakes, as if he had to make...
Nevertheless, the success of the Cuban effort is far from certain. Cuba is short of trained managers, and in some factories has relied on worker self-supervision. In many of these factories worker productivity has been falling. "Once you take the bosses off people's backs." says one Harvard economist just returned from Cuba. "you don't have people doing the onerous tasks they have to do." And while there is little doubt that masses of students and intellectuals have been doing volunteer work in the cane fields, few observers can tell whether they are there because they want...