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...basic direction?right at his opponent's gut. A kind of motorized Marciano, he works his short arms like pistons, pumping away with such mechanical precision that he consistently throws between 54 and 58 punches each round. He works almost exclusively inside, crouching and always moving in to slam the body. When the pummeling begins to slow his opponent, when the guard drops to protect the stomach, Frazier tosses a murderous left hook to the head. His coup de grâce is lethal. "Getting hit by Joe," says Light Heavyweight Ray Anderson, one of Frazier's sparring partners, "is like...
Ibsen's teen-age disciple, James Joyce, understood him much better than Shaw. As Ibsen had slammed the door on a claustrophobic Norway, Joyce slammed the door on Ireland and uttered his non serviam: "I will not serve that in which I no longer believe." Nora's door slam is a crisis of belief, her non serviarn. But is she saving herself or indulging herself? To judge her act, one must imagine the alternatives. In that final scene in which Nora accuses Torvald of never having talked to her seriously about serious things, man and wife...
...hits and 33 runs. The Orioles' slug ging average of .509 was in fact a record for a five-game Series, as were their ten home runs. Even McNally got into the act as he became the first pitcher in Series history to hit a grand-slam home...
...Rosewall became the oldest player to win the U.S. men's singles since Bill Tilden did it in 1929 at age 36. By winning the women's singles title, Mrs. Margaret Smith Court became the first woman to complete tennis' grand slam-the Australian, French, British and American championships-since Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly turned the trick...
Astounding Force. If anything, Margaret Court, winner of 20 tournaments this year, is running out of ways to say thank you. In sweeping the grand slam, she lost only three of 49 sets. A rangy country girl from New South Wales, she overwhelms smaller players with her booming serves and bulleting volleys. Graced with the long legs of a middle-distance runner, she covers more court than any woman in tennis...