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...after I'm through," said Ali when the fight was over. Sporting a robe given him by Elvis Presley, he then hobnobbed with such fans as Diana Ross and Sammy Davis Jr. But it wasn't all fisticuffs and show biz. Ali was also promoting his new toy Oop-fli (a ring spun off two sticks and caught by an opponent's two sticks), which he hopes will earn him a tidy bundle. Another Frisbee or Hula-Hoop it isn't, but then Muhammad Ali is not the champion any longer, either...
...critics of Berger's approach, video tape is no more than a distraction, an expensive plaything. But Berger and many of his colleagues consider it not a toy but a tool, and not prohibitively expensive. Adequate equipment, Berger says, can be bought for two or three thousand dollars...
...that grounding in a discipline was an integral and necessary part of an undergraduate's education. In the same debate Bok questioned the practicality of giving college students a secure and sweeping acquaintance with Western Civilization in four years. In this report he has again shown his readiness to toy with the common twofold definition of a College education...
...writers, it has to be remembered that to Dietrich a stupid question is one that touches on 1) her age, 2) her beauty secrets, 3) her personal life, or 4) just about anything else a reporter might be interested in, including her daughter, the wife of an American toy manufacturer living in London, and her four grandsons...
Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier) is a wealthy member of the English gentry. He is also the author of a dozen novels about the aristocratic investigator St. John Lord Merridew and an obsessive games player whose home looks like a cross between Pollock's Toy Museum and a penny arcade. Milo Tindle (Michael Caine), a London hairdresser whose parents were Italian and-worse yet-Jewish, is the lover of Wyke's estranged wife. He comes by Wyke's stately home one afternoon to discuss a divorce. Wyke instead presses him into an intricate plot to defraud an insurance...