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Clay will probably try hard for a knockout to convince the skeptics that he has a power punch. Since Chuvalo is unable to back pedal, the fight should be a slugfest until the Canadian falls or Ali tires and decides to punish the challenger with his stinging jabs...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: Chuvalo Faces Ali in Title Mismatch | 3/29/1966 | See Source »

...Crimson, the longest of long shots in the annual highlight of Boston's collegiate winter sports season, scored first and held the Terriers in a 1-1 check for the first period. But B.U. exploded for five second-period goals as the one-sided affair degenerated into a sloppy slugfest...

Author: By Robert P. Marshal jr., | Title: Icemen Outclassed in Slugfest, Lose Contest to Terriers, 9-2 | 2/15/1966 | See Source »

Congress. With Russia's Leonid Brezhnev and Peking's Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-Ping attending, Bucharest had been billed as a head-on Sino-Soviet verbal slugfest. But the Rumanians attached "keep quiet" stickers to each invitation, and the result was a collection of docile guests whose most exciting time at the meeting was a five-hour, 93-page declaration of independence by their host, Ceausescu, that went considerably beyond anything Gheorghiu-Dej ever bruited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumania: The Docile Guests | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

...PUSSYCAT. In healthy, vulgar slugfest between sex and the spirit, Diana Sands's screeching prostitute discovers she has a mind, and Alan Alda's dusty bookstore clerk admits he has a body. They almost lose each other trying to reconcile the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 26, 1965 | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...PUSSYCAT. In a healthy, vulgar slugfest between sex and the spirit, Diana Sands's screeching prostitute discovers she has a mind, and Alan Alda's dusty bookstore clerk admits he has a body. They almost lose each other trying to reconcile the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 19, 1965 | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

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