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...Initiative. The contrasting call from the right, for more toughness and less talk, was heard in varied accents. "We submit that it is a curious way to fight a war when you wait for the enemy to sock you first before returning a light jab," said the Chicago Tribune. "As our global strategy is the same, the prospect for the survival of freedom doesn't look too encouraging, even for the U.S." In Atlanta, the Journal also faulted the U.S. for "permitting the initiative to rest with the Communists...
Plastic Patina. Some contemporary sculpture now jostling for Liebensraum in the living room cries less for the patina of age than for the quick eye jab of bright plastic paint. The result is a spate of new polychromists (see opposite page). Among them...
...pound class, hard-punching Art Campbell took a controversial decision from a faster-moving Kim Johnson. In a slow first round Johnson displayed a hard left jab but failed to throw it with any regularity. Campbell landed a few strong combinations to the body...
Johnson opened round two with more sharp jabbing, but sometime in mid-round he made the mistake of abandoning the jab-and-retreat tactics for a frontal assault that cost him the round. The stronger Campbell took a few of Johnson's punches and then countered with a hail of powerful hooks and uppercuts that battered Johnson into the ropes...
...Clear-eyed again, Clay sprang from his corner in the sixth round. Rat-a-tat-tat, a flurry of eight punches made Liston double up. "Get mad, baby," Clay's handlers chanted. "Go after him." Fighting flatfooted, Cassius ripped off a roundhouse right that just missed. Jab, jab, jab, jab, the cut under Liston's eye began to ooze blood again. Two left hooks snapped Sonny's head back. Cassius sank back onto his stool and leaned through the ropes. "I'm gonna upset the world," he told a TV announcer...