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Cassius Clay could not floor, stagger, seriously hurt challenger George Chuvalo in Toronto last night, but the heavyweight champion jabbed his way to a unanimous 15-round decision anyway...
...possible compromise would be to stagger the terms so that half the House would be elected with the President, half in off-year elections. However, Katzenbach made clear that the Administration would not accept this solution, fearing that it might split each party in the House into two rump groups, one a "presidential" party, the other an "off-year" faction free to ignore its own "presidential banner and platform." Said he: "A cure, to be a cure, cannot be worse than the malady...
...Hill. Under the merciless white sun, five soldiers bearing full packs stagger up the sandy slope of a man-made pyramid in North Africa. If they falter they face further punishment. If they fall, they are doused with water and forced to continue until they collapse from heat, hate and exhaustion. The five, led by an insubordinate British officer (Sean Connery) and a black West Indian sneak thief (Ossie Davis), are prisoners in a British army stockade during World War II. The architect of their torture on the hill is a brutal sergeant major (Harry Andrews) who believes that...
...answers the Freedom Committee: the issues are simply Shuttlesworth's one-man rule over church finances, and the question of how much time he should spend away from church working for Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The accusations stagger Pastor Shuttlesworth. "If I'm a dictator, I'm a benevolent one," he says. "I sleep with the parishioners on my mind, thinking of their misdeeds and the evil in their hearts...
Acceptance. When he was nominated anyway, Stevenson accepted with a speech that was memorable for its eloquence, but still betrayed his inner doubts. He had not sought the nomination, he said, because the burdens of presidential office "stagger the imagination." He continued: "Its potential for good or evil, now and in the years of our lives, smothers exultation and converts vanity to prayer. I have asked the Merciful Father-the Father of us all -to let this cup pass from me. But from such dread responsibility one does not shrink in fear, in self-interest, or in false humility...