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...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 ago to dispatch California's Jerry Quarry with a third-round T.K.O. In defeating Quarry, Ali showed that he still had the lightning...
...campaign, U.S. commanders believe, the Communists must tightly ration their ammunition, which helps keep the level of fighting down. Of course, the Communists have the advantage most of the time of being free to set their own schedule for attack. "We make him pay a price for every ton," says an Air Force spokesman about the enemy. "But he never runs out of roads. It just drives you nuts...
...declined from 2.6% in 1963 to 2.3% in 1969. Much of its economic malaise can be traced directly to the dizzily fluctuating prices of its export commodities. Copper (94% of Zambia's export and 60% of the Congo's) dropped in value from $1,600 a ton last March to $1,140 in August. Sisal (once Tanzania's leading export) has dropped from $18.16 per 100 Ibs. in 1963 to $6.64 last August. Statistics about Africa are woefully inadequate; economists differ over whether Nigeria's per-capita income is $120 or $80. But the figures underscore...
...least 100 municipalities, universities and industries are working on the solid-waste problem. Max Spendlove, research director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines' Metallurgy Research Center at College Park, Md., is reclaiming glass and metals from res- idue scooped from incinerators. At a cost of $3.52 a ton, he says, his methods yield materials with a potential market value of $12 a ton. Last week New York City's environmental protection administrator. Je- rome Kretchmer. suggested a way to recycle the 73,000 cars that New Yorkers abandon on the streets each year. He urged the state...
While the 207,000-ton supertanker Marpessa was steaming southward past the coast of Senegal to pick up a load of crude oil from the Persian Gulf, her crewmen were routinely spray cleaning her empty oil tanks with jets of sea water. For no apparent reason, an explosion ripped through the hull, sending the brand-new ship to the bottom. Two weeks later, an oil hold of the supertanker Mactra blew up in the Mozambique Channel; next day a blast blew apart the Kong Haakon VII off Liberia. Last summer there were two more tanker explosions. Scientists and oilmen were...