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...that Frazier will meet in the ring is a different kind of fighter from the man who took Liston's heavyweight title away in 1964. Then he was still calling himself Cassius Clay, and the jaunty slogan of his training camp was "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." Now at his headquarters in Miami Beach's Fifth Street Gym. the byword is "He moves like silk, hits like a ton"?and for good reason. Yon Cassius no longer has that lean and hungry look. After 3½ years of exile, he returned to the ring four months...
...some people who feel they have to cushion me when there is unpleasant news, but they are wrong," says Muskie. "Berl doesn't cushion anything with me." A successful Washington lawyer both in and out of Government, Bernhard has a knack for employing humor to take the sting out of his stern judgments. "He will cut a guy's legs off if it has to be done," contends one close friend, "but he uses plenty of anaesthesia." Muskie prefers a woodsy Maine metaphor to explain Bernhard's style: "Even a moose has velvet on its horns part...
...response to such complaints, some chemical companies are trying to figure out ways of taking the sting out of deicers. Meanwhile, it is hard to argue with highway officials who insist that banning the deicers would present an even greater hazard to public health and safety. As evidence they cite the example of Burlington, Mass., which last December decided to ban the use of salts on its roads after detecting high sodium levels in its drinking water. This winter the community's schools have been closed more often than those of neighboring towns because of icy roads, and minor...
Cleanliness works in Singapore where it fails elsewhere because the government, and especially tough Socialist Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, cracks down on polluters with a vengeance. Strict laws are well understood in a compact city-state where the citizenry has a high literacy rate. But it is the sting of law-hitting Singaporeans in the pocketbook-that has been the most effective antipollution measure...
...Sting. A sizable amount of hustled money: at least...