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...superbly conditioned athlete. Six months ago Ali could not escape Spinks and had folded his hands over his face, leaned on the ropes and allowed Spinks to bash away. Now Ali backpedaled on resilient legs and, more important, he used his hands. The famous Ali jab lacked the sting of old, but it held Spinks at bay. Each time the boxers closed on one another, Ali threw short, tightly paced combinations into the younger man's face. Once, Spinks had swarmed over Ali with furious flurries; this night, Ali beat him to the punch. By the fifth round (which...
BOSTON. For years racial antagonism and resistance to busing forced educational progress into a back seat. There has been notable white flight from Boston. But 25 new magnet schools have taken some of the sting out of forced integration by drawing a multiracial student body, which attends voluntarily and comes from all over the city to get high-grade training...
...Tiger at the Gates, The Long and the Short and the Tall), later in American movies, where he portrayed a wide-ranging gallery of rogues. Among them: a sinister assassin in From Russia with Love, Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons, a glowering Irish gangster in The Sting and, in his most popular role, the shark hunter Quint in Jaws...
Smith had relied on the promises of his three black colleagues in Rhodesia's interim government that they could persuade large numbers of guerrillas to defect, thereby taking the sting out of the debilitating bush war. Instead, guerrilla attacks have increased in strength and boldness. Today, Rhodesia's main highways, and not just back-country roads, are perilous for convoys. A few months ago, isolated farms, missions and villages were the main targets for guerrillas belonging to the Patriotic Front. Salisbury's outskirts are checkered with new shanty towns, as blacks flee tribal lands for the safety of the city...
...Democratic ticket. George McGovern was impressed by his newfound fund raiser's seriousness: "Warren not only cares about issues, but his judgment is very perceptive." Mostly to be available for McGovern, Beatty rejected a number of major films: The Godfather, The Way We Were, The Great Gatsby and The Sting. Once the campaign was over, Beatty got to work producing and starring in Shampoo, a trenchant social comedy about a randy Beverly Hills hairdresser. Its sexual frankness was almost as hotly debated as the violence in Bonnie and Clyde, but it was enormously successful...