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...known for years about the submarines," explained the disgruntled Swede. "If you ignore them, they go away...
...been sent against the black savage since James J. Jeffries hurried out of retirement in 1910 to try to wipe the grin off the face of Jack Johnson. Rocky Marciano, who retired undefeated the year Cooney was born, was the last white American to wear the heavyweight crown. When Swede Ingemar Johansson shook Floyd Patterson loose from the title momentarily in 1959, Ingemar had one wonderful year to enjoy it. He was the last white champion. Since then, promoters have searched high and low, usually low, from Omaha to Bayonne, N.J., and found mostly inept white brawlers like Ron Stander...
...dispatches on Smiley's death, it was quickly pointed out that nobody had died at the old "brickyard" since 1973, when Art Pollard was killed in qualifications, Swede Savage was fatally injured in the race, and Armando Teran was run over by a fire truck speeding the wrong way toward Savage's crash. (That was also the year Salt Walther was maimed, if maiming counts...
...extent, the tennis fan can sympathize with the world's heavyweight champion and understand how he might feel spurned, even betrayed. But when the 24-year-old Swede made his decision to take an extended sideline break--as many all-time greats such as Rod Laver, John Newcombe, and Chris Evert have done in the past--he fully understood the impersonal procedures of computer rankings and tournament seedings. Agonizing over his postponement to re-enter the ranks only frustrates his ice-man resolve, making a long-awaited comeback less likely...
Last week the 1981 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry, worth about $182,000 each, went to five men, three Americans, a Swede and a Japanese, for helping open windows on that frenzied dance of the atoms. In their work, they used one of the more esoteric tools of 20th century science: quantum mechanics, a mathematical way of looking at the paradoxically dual nature of matter, whose smallest components sometimes behave like waves, sometimes like particles. But their results have everyday importance, for example, in the development of techniques for measuring pollution and the creation of new drugs and chemicals...