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Technical Knockout. Not until after his ninth-round tumble did Ali start fighting with wrath. Incarnadine but oaken-hearted, Wepner would not fall: a 10-1 underdog, he had never been knocked off his feet. Then, in the 15th round, with 19 seconds left to the fight, Ali slammed a right into Wepner's bloody face and spilled him into the ropes. Although Wepner was lurching up by the count of nine, the fight was over, ended by Perez on a technical knockout. Braverman and other aides half-hauled Wepner's beaten body back to his corner...
...lively scene, and funny at first, from the back row. Nothing too ominous until I noticed that there were virtually no women there. And dashing behind in the darkness a little dervish preppie-looking kid speeding round corners like Underdog then jumping into wild blissful Snoopy-leaps. Must have been drugs...
...toward Israel that have nothing to do with Jewish lobbying: a sense of something owed the Jewish people after the Nazi Holocaust; shared religious roots and democratic ideals; admiration for the pioneer spirit of the Israeli nation builders, so seemingly akin to America's own beginnings; empathy for the underdog diminished after the Israelis' victory in 1967. Besides there were the geopolitical, cold war realities of the 1950s, when Arab governments turned to the Soviet Union for aid in their efforts to destroy Israel...
Although Ivy champion Harvard would appear to be top dog in the championship race. Harvard will actually be cast as an underdog to national swimming power North Carolina State which is also scheduled to compete...
...lewish cause is still "the underdog cause of all world causes," Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, said yesterday in the Lowell House Senior Common Room...