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...vicious right hook in the thirteenth round knocked Smokin' Joe's mouthguard out of his face, and a follow-up left-right-left series left Frazier's face badly bleeding. Ali continued to pound away at Frazier's face in the next round, and the referee was finally forced to award Ali the victory. A dazed Frazier did not object to the ruling...

Author: By James E. Mcgrath, | Title: Ali Wins By TKO In the 14th Round As Frazier Fails | 10/1/1975 | See Source »

...where do these pants fit in with the old image of Cleaver, rapist? In Soul on Ice, he wrote, "I became a rapist. To refine my technique and modus operandi, I started out by practicing on black girls in the ghetto--in the black ghetto where dark and vicious deeds appear not as aberrations or deviations from the norm, but as part of the sufficiency of the Evil of a day--and when I considered myself smooth enough, I crossed the tracks and sought out white prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically....Rape was an insurrectionary...

Author: By Mark Stillman, | Title: Eldridge Cleaver's New Pants | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

...more obscure "Amnesiac," the last few lines become a vicious, lingering taunt...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: The White Heat of Plath's Voice | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

...Walvis Bay. Still others joined a convoy of trucks that crossed the Cunene River and headed along the scorched Namib coastline, known locally as the Coast of Loneliness. The refugees were the vanguard of an estimated 350,000 people who are trying desperately to escape from Angola. As the vicious civil war among the Portuguese territory's three black independence parties has steadily worsened, the exodus of both blacks and whites has become a rout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANGOLA: From Exodus to Rout | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

...Sirhan, who shot to death Robert F. Kennedy, or Arthur Bremer, who crippled Alabama Governor George Wallace. She had been−and still was−an ardent follower of Charles Manson, the psychopathic killer who is now serving a sentence of life imprisonment for committing seven murders, including the vicious slaughters in 1969 of Film Actress Sharon Tate and Leno LaBianca, wealthy owner of a grocery chain. Because her voice was so tiny and high-pitched, Manson had nicknamed her "Squeaky" (see box page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIOLENCE: THE GIRL WHO ALMOST KILLED FORD | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

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