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...many hours and in many places. Anson found him "impossible to dislike. He's a warm, genuine human being who deserves better than to make his living by having his head knocked in." Anson at one point asked Frazier's manager, Yancey Durham, for permission to spar with the fighter. Informed that the last journalist to do so had been an ex-fighter who emerged from the ring with a broken leg, Anson contented himself with watching. A bigger disappointment was not getting a chance to ride on the back of Frazier's motorcycle. "But," said Anson...
...spar over My Lai 4 and the Chicago Seven, guaranteed incomes and Women's Lib; our tastes for entertainment have little in common; our views on America's changing mores are worlds apart; and my hair is still longer than my father's. But these differences have not severed the link between us. Disagreement is inevitable, but we are not estranged. For this, credit is due to my parents' patience. Communication, however, remains a two-way street. Here are some tactics that have proved successful in lessening the conflicts...
SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Rex Harrison and Charlton Heston spar as pope and painter in The Agony and the Ecstasy...
...itself begins, members of the company gradually come on stage--dressed mostly in well-worn tee-shirts and dungarees--and use the area purely as a playground. These young people--about a fifth of them Negro--dribble and pass basketballs, throw Frisbees (unusually skillfully, too), play with hula-hoops, spar and wrestle, do gymnastics, shinny up and down the swing ropes, and hang by their heels from the top of the stage. Some of them make rhythms with a tambourine, rattle, triangle, maracus, and a pair of claves. Eventually there are some two dozen young people, and a crescendo...
...trials off Newport, R.I. If so, practice makes perfect. After five days of round-robin match racing, Bus Mosbacher's Intrepid was still the prohibitive favorite to defend the Cup against Australia's Dame Pattie next month. Outfitted with a second titanium-tipped mast (to replace the spar that broke twice in earlier races this summer), a new rudder, and new spreaders to stiffen the mast, Intrepid twice beat her own trial horse, Constellation, utterly crushed American Eagle-beating her by 9 min. 44 sec. over the 24.3-mile course-and showed her stern to California...