Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly full shopping bags" of unpublished Hemingway manuscripts. As for Margaux, she is getting ready to be a leading lady in Carlo Ponti's film The Naked Sun. The wraps are on her role, but, she bubbles, "I wind up with the emeralds in the end." A step up from the pendant she was wearing: a plastic heart filled with Life Savers...
Cassius moved up in the rankings, and with each step he minted new doggerel predicting the round of his opponent's defeat. The talking, talking, talking had begun in earnest now; the young, barely literate Louisville Lip displayed the stirrings of a genius more valuable in a media age: a flair for public relations, for hype and self-aggrandizement...
...Cong," he said, and changed his life forever. When the Army tried to draft Ali, he appealed, claiming that, as a Black Muslim, he was a conscientious objector: Ali managed to squeeze in a few fights, mostly in Europe, before the date he was supposed to take the fateful step forward to induction. Ironically, the man who read so haltingly that he was once declared below Army standards was also invited to lecture on campuses by students who were sitting out the war behind a book. Ali became the symbol of opposition to the war at a time when Lyndon...
...April 1967, Ali had exhausted all of his appeals. At the Houston Induction Center, he refused orders to step forward to join the Army. Within minutes the New York State Athletic Commission rescinded his boxing license; it took the World Boxing Association four hours to do its patriotic duty and take away his title. The State Department confiscated his passport so that he could not travel to nations willing to sanction his fighting. For his stand, Ali was convicted of draft evasion and given a five-year prison sentence. He started the lengthy process of appeal, and discovered that...
...next step in the selection process will be to narrow the list of candidatesto three or four and offer them the post officially, Paul C. Levin '79, Dunster House Committee co-president, said last week. The committee will meet Wednesday and send a letter to President Bok describing the type of master they would like the House to have, Levin added...