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...judges' decision was unanimous and lopsided. Dressed in pajamalike native costumes, half a dozen Nigerians swarmed through the ropes to congratulate New Champion Tiger, while Manager Marv Jenson led the battered ex-champ sadly out of the ring. Afterward came the expected talk of a rematch-but Fullmer was not so sure. "If I feel like I can't take him," he said, "there won't be one." And he added: "You can't be sorry when you get beat by a better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Clawed by a Tiger | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...recent weeks TIME'S NATION staff, under Senior Editor Champ Clark, has focused on races in Ohio, Colorado, Pennsylvania. New York, Hawaii, Oklahoma, Kansas, Connecticut and Massachusetts. This week we take another look at Nixon and Brown in California, at George Romney's race in Michigan, and at the battle between Wilson Wyatt and Thruston Morton in Kentucky. Through these reports we try to catch the variety and divergencies of a wide country. In Nebraska as well as in the South there are Dem ocrats careful not to identify themselves with Kennedy; in Michigan and New York, among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Oct. 26, 1962 | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

Somehow it doesn't seem right that the Little Three should be better at soccer than the Ivy Leaguers. But on Saturday the Crimson--last year's Ivy champ--dropped its second bout with a Little Three member, a humiliating 3-0 loss to Amherst...

Author: By Jonathan D. Trobe, | Title: Amherst Triumphs 3-0 Over Varsity Booters | 10/15/1962 | See Source »

...Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 22, already assured of a $250,000 income in his rookie year as a pro, was all set to put aside his driver and hit the books. But the academic fairway proved full of traps. The school's dean ruled that because the U.S. Open champ was committed to three weeks of golfing exhibitions during the fall term, he must cancel them or withdraw; his instructors felt that he "could not miss that much class time." The edict riled Nicklaus. an insurance major with average grades. "I don't like to be told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 12, 1962 | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

Except for the difference in age, it might have been interesting if they had come to blows. Capehart, although pretty pudgy now, was an Army boxing champion in World War I. Bayh was light heavyweight champ at Purdue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Pugilists | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

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