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...insulted his opponents: Sonny Listen was "an ugly bear"; Floyd Patterson was "a chump"; George Chuvalo was "a washerwoman." Last week, Cassius Clay reached a peak-of sorts. In Manhattan to publicize his Feb. 6 title fight with Ernie Terrell, he flew completely off the handle when Terrell casually referred to him as "Clay...
...finance the budget deficit. Under longstanding moral and legal commitments that they could not ignore, the banks were also shelling out corporate loans faster than they were taking in deposits. In New York City banks, the ratio of loans climbed to well over 70% of deposits, a 45-year peak...
...Hitler's armor moved into Poland, and ends on Dec. 31, 1942, with his 62nd birthday party (sherry and cake) in the Pentagon-and with Rommel still in Africa and the Red army just hanging on at Stalingrad. Between those dates lay a Pikes Peak of paper. This has been industriously mined and smelted down by his official historian, Dr. Forrest C. Pogue, combat historian in World War II and currently director of the George C. Marshall Research Center, a private foundation at Lexington, Va., housing Marshall papers and memorabilia. Pogue can be relied upon to commit no injustice...
Another deterrent is the maximum three week stay -- most of HSA's flights are five to twelve weeks. And the announced rates will be higher in the peak summer months, so that HSA will still have competitive fares...
...This poll was conducted at a peak time, when the library was filled to near capacity," Lowenstein said. "We observed that over half the students were boys." Yet the 90 girls polled were fairly evenly divided between "partial exclusion" and "no restrictions," the latter having a slight edge of 8-10 votes...