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...superbly displayed his talents for promotion in 1964, when he was matched for the title with Champion Sonny Liston, a great, seemingly invincible giant of a man. Clay called Listen an "ugly old bear" and pranced around carrying a bear trap to the delight of the photographers. Budini Brown, Clay's corner man and cheerleader, gave his fighter the perfect line: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." That is precisely what he did. Cassius attacked, disappeared on those marvelously fast feet, attacked again, disappeared again, until the bear was beaten, helpless in his corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greatest Is Gone | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...understand their cherished democratic freedoms must be protected from a world that in large part does not cherish them. Appearing on the David Susskind Show in January, Jack Fishman, a British expert on intelligence, said he was "appalled by the way the American public is falling into the trap of slandering and smearing its own security organization. The CIA may have made many mistakes, but that does not mean you should smash your own security in the name of freedom of speech. You can't destroy yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaping Tomorrow's CIA | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson women needed no outstanding individual efforts nor any lategame miracles as they put together a solid team performance, sparked by a very effective 1-3-1 zone-trap defense...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: ...While Women Employ Tough Zone, Dominate MIT's Hapless Engineers, 63-24 | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...city that care forgot," tourism has traditionally been the second biggest money-spinner after its port, the nation's second busiest. The French Quarter, its major magnet, is a trap, not an attraction, a mart of sleazy sex shows, watered whisky and jaded jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Superdome Named Desire | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

Elizabeth Bowen has its flaws. But she does not fall into the trap of equating importance with length. If dropped, her book will not break the reader's foot. Ultimately, the biography does what it is supposed to do: it rekindles interest in the writer and in her works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passions in a Darkened Mirror | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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