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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bell, Fullmer began to show a bewildering set of new tactics: in business as a Pier Six battler, he had turned Fancy Dan. Instead of ducking his head and plowing in, Fullmer danced tantalizingly beyond the reach of Basilio's deadly left hook. When Basilio swung, Fullmer countered with deft precision. When Basilio crowded him into a corner, Fullmer calmly retreated into a cocoon of arms and shoulders, then emerged to give better than he got. When Basilio clinched, Fullmer wrestled him about as he pleased and tossed in an occasional elbow for old time's sake...
...view, while arresting, is often somewhat unsatisfying. "The practice of coitus," declares Jones, "was familiar to me at the ages of six and seven, after which I suspended it and did not resume it till I was 24." This startling statement he leaves unexplained. No less tantalizing is his claim to inside knowledge of why British General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon and his besieged garrison were overwhelmed at Khartoum in 1885: "All the high endeavour . . . miscarried through the petty episode of Lord Charles Beresford's developing a boil on the bottom at the critical moment." At this critical moment...
...week's end, the Philharmonic flew off to Leningrad for six concerts, will go to Kiev for four, return to Moscow for three more. Then come Germany, France, Yugoslavia, Italy, Scandinavia, and finally on Oct. 10, London. If the reception is anything like those to date, New York will have trouble keeping the Philharmonic and its maestro at home from...
...chances of adjusting to first-grade work; early failure at the blackboard can induce a defeatist attitude that endures for years. Physically as well as mentally, say the educators, waiting is wise. Studies have shown that four out of five children are still normally farsighted at the age of six, are handicapped in reading until about six months later. But these arguments do not carry far with an irate parent, who is apt to feel, as his strapping son of almost seven stumbles into a first-grade class, that he has fathered a "slow child...
...Naval Academy announced that it was junking six "hardware'' courses, e.g., "Naval Boilers'" and "Ship Stability," in favor of "studies of a fundamental nature which will not soon go out of date." Among them: a new course in vector calculus, a 25% increase in the basic physics course, a general shift in all engineering subjects "away from applied engineering to more of a basic science approach." In another innovation, Annapolis will credit 190 incoming middies this fall for a total of 316 college courses they took before entering the academy. The new students will move straight into...