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...previous U.S. visits, the Beatles were virtually sold out by mail even before the tickets were printed. This time, part of the impresarios' advance was ulcers. That is because three of the four Beatles are now married (traditionally suicide for teen-targeted acts), and because, as Manager Brian Epstein concedes, "they are not the novelty they were...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! The American immigrant experience is a tale oft told; but in this engaging drama, Irish Playwright Brian Friel offers a fascinating visit to the Ould Sod for a glimpse of the wrenching departure that precedes each expectant arrival...
...Somewhere," mused Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay, 24, "there is a ten-year-old boy who is going to whip me." Meanwhile, Cassius is bumming around. Last week's punching bag was Brian London, a 32-year-old Blackpudlian whose face should be on posters warning, FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT. Cassius' motives for fighting London were 1) a pressing need for money (he must post a $50,000 alimony bond before Aug. 27 or go to jail), and 2) a fine regard for his personal safety. London already had been knocked out by Henry Cooper and Floyd Patterson-both...
Clay amused himself by reddening London's nose with light jabs in the first round. In the second, he buckled the challenger's knees with a stiff right. In the third, he unleashed a blinding flurry of punches climaxed with a right cross that sent Brian beddie-by. Next stop on Champion Clay's world tour: Frankfurt, Germany, where he will fight European Champion Karl Mildenberger on Sept. 10. Then it's off to the Near East, "where I hope to fight all the best boxers of each country...
About four or five comets are discovered in an average year, according to Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory: approximately half by amateurs who make a habit of searching for them. "This has been an unusually slow year," he said...