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...very lucky. Every boxer must now use 12-ounce gloves (vs. 10-ounce in 1930's). Headgeers which also protect the ears and forehead are required. And fighters must have steel athletic supporters and a rubber mouth piece. In addition, the ring must have a mat with a two-inch padding...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Intercollegiate Boxing Used to Be Popular | 2/24/1956 | See Source »

Bitter Man. Returning last fall to his Latin Quarter room with its nude prints, Le Pen installed the new mistress he had picked up in Saigon-an elfin artist with inch-long silver fingernails and two-toned hair (blond on brown). He was bitter about the Communists, about Mendès France's "betrayal" of Indo-China, scornful of France's Deputies, whom he labeled degenerates. Poujade, with his chaotic down-with-taxes, down-with-Parliament protest movement, seemed just what he was looking for. Accused during the campaign of keeping a mistress. Le Pen sneered: "I suppose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Poujadists Under Fire | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...coaxing, Mrs. Adams agrees to spill some pseudo pregnancy news over Flaire's national TV hookup.* Unfortunately, a makeup artist named Jacques Mario Jean Petrovich goes into a dither over Mrs. Adams' "firm ample tummy [which] was shaped like the underside of a round 15-inch skillet." The pair are about to start cooking with gas when Blade starts playing Bogart with Jacques's face ("Slap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 1960 Campaign | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...have pussyfooted around on this boycott long enough and it has come time to be frank and honest. There seems to be a belief on the part of the Negroes that they have the white people hemmed up in a corner and they are not going to give an inch until they can force the white people of the community to submit to their demands-in fact, swallow them all." (The Negroes demand seating in buses on a first come, first seated basis, with whites seating from the front backward, Negroes from the back forward.) Mayor Gayle was specially vexed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Negroes Laughing? | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...Crimson has good potential. The squad has successfully combined height and speed in its games this year. Captain George Harrington, a 5 foot 7 inch guard, has been the standout player...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sporting Scene | 2/2/1956 | See Source »

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