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...explain why Don might lose. For one thing, the 16½ft. square ring was too small. For another, the Britons reminded their readers, U.S. boxing is rotten with rackets. In Philadelphia, a light heavyweight named Harold Johnson claimed to have been doped before a fight by a stranger who gave him a bitter-tasting orange, so Cockell's California camp made a big show of not using tea sent by well-wishers...
...victory may go to the creative. Self-exiled Rene Harding is a "creative" man who is doomed to be defeated by "destructive" fellow men. His conquerors are not little Karl Marxes; they are average men who are stubbornly determined to lead average lives and to cold-shoulder the stranger who threatens their peace of mind. Harding defends himself by putting a steely armor on and letting his heart freeze up. By war's end, Harding has surrendered because he no longer believes that creative man can ever win. He settles tamely into a snug U.S. professorship. "The Faculty...
...something practical about juvenile delinquency. He became a member of the Bronxwood Community Council, which campaigned for street lights on dark corners, provided recreational equipment for teenagers. Blankenship lost: on a Bronx street his own son was shot to death in cold blood by another youth, a total stranger. "We're whipped," said Bill Blankenship last week. "We've been caught and crushed...
...Stranger. Just how Caltech achieved its extraordinary stature is one of the phenomena of U.S. education. Since it took its present form only 35 years ago, it is not only the youngest of its peers among U.S. universities, it is also one of the smallest (600 undergraduates, 450 graduate students). On its 30-acre campus of stucco, Mediterranean-style buildings and olive-shaded walks, no one is a stranger, and with its faculty of 350, it has the luxuriously high teacher-student ratio of about one to three. While other campuses glut themselves with courses, Caltech will happily drop...
There is no assurance that some of the stories told of Holworthy are not a bit apocryphal. Truth may at times be stranger than fiction, but stories, even true ones, have a way of growing. For instance, how could 48 Holworthy men have fitted into the small Class Day fountain? And was Professor Sophocles ignorant or exempt from the dormitory regulations which prohibit animals of any nature from being in rooms...