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...rounds La Motta worked like a man in a doze: his footwork was sluggish, his left, normally sharp and stabbing, had neither punch nor pep. Twice the referee had to step in to tell Jake to fight. In the 14th round, the Frenchman jarred him with a right cross that almost floored the 29-year-old champion for the first time in his ring career...
Persistent Rats. One of the two remaining airfields in the beachhead was at Taegu-and Taegu itself was gravely threatened. On the central front, it seemed as hard to prevent the Reds from crossing the Naktong as to stop rats from boarding a moored ship. In some places, the sluggish green water was shallow enough to wade across. At night, free from Allied air attack, the North Koreans put tanks across on barges and hastily built log and stone causeways, whose top surfaces were a foot under water and hard to see from the air. Once, in full daylight, under...
...Louis as a relentless stalker with dynamite in his punch, who held the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship for eleven years, defended it successfully 25 times. Two years ago, at 34, Joe made his final title defense against cautious Jersey Joe Walcott. He won by a knockout in eleven sluggish rounds while ringsiders shook their heads. Joe was slow and flabby; his bald spot was showing. Joe hung up his gloves...
...best field commander of the Korean army. His younger brother, 27-year-old Paik In Yup, commander of the iyth Regiment, was wounded in fighting farther north after successfully leading his regiment out of the precarious pocket. The two Paik boys' are a shining contrast to the inefficient, sluggish South Korean commanders who bungled the early days of fighting in the west. As the pressure grows, they and others like them are inevitably moving up to top command jobs...
Most serious failure is the sluggish pace in recruiting a Viet Nam army. Bao Dai's government has thus far assembled only four battalions, about...