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Registration is still more than a month away, but the midsummer drought is over for at least one section of the Harvard underworld--the well-hidden, but by no means small group that thrives on magazine articles about college students...
...footpadded out with 24 gems, including the priceless Star of India sapphire and the $140,000, 100.32-carat DeLong ruby. Chapter II: the cops picked up Jack ("Murph the Surf") Murphy and two Miami beachboy buddies-but not the jewels. Through contacts, the police began shadowy negotiations with the underworld, eventually regained nine of the stones, among them the Star of India (TIME, Jan. 15). Chapter III: New York's gang-busting District Attorney Frank Hogan, 63, disclosed that the DeLong ruby had wound up in the hands of some Miami usurers. They were asking $21,000 ransom...
...years of harsh colonial rule by imperial Japan, regard their former masters as a cruel, crafty race bent on reasserting economic domination of their country. To most Japanese, on the other hand, Koreans are senjin-subhumans-personified by the garlic-reeking Korean thugs who rule Tokyo's underworld. Such acid antagonisms are not easily neutralized in an Asia rent by revolution and rising nationalism. Last week, nonetheless, Japan and South Korea took a long step toward amicable relations and genuine co-prosperity...
...plot of From Russia With Love is based on Bond's gaming instinct. The chief of an underworld organization called SPECTRE calculates that the carrot of a secret Russian decoding machine along with a sensuous blond would be more than 007 could resist. By eliminating his enemies for him, SPECTRE attempts to build his confidence in his own luck until he finally overplays his hand. But they fail to consider that James Bond is that special kind of gambler, he always wins...
...farce, of course, was an overrated bum named Sonny Liston. He must be close to 40; he was bulky at 2151 Ibs. (to Clay's 206), was 2 in. shorter, and about as nimble as a Gila monster. Somehow he had persuaded quite a few people-including the underworld characters hanging around his training camp -that he would button the lip of the twinkle-toed loudmouth who took his title away in Miami last year. Oddsmakers made him the 6-5 favorite, and in Miami the word was that one mobster bet $30,000 on Liston...