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...sprawling international auto show is where you go to savor the future and sample-test what you can't remotely afford. Manhattan's Tenth International, which opened last week, is no exception. With Detroit in the middle of its 1966 Model Year, the U.S. industry had whipped up futuristic show models as crowd catchers, but as in previous years, the honors go to foreign imports, which tend to be fast, sporty and expensive...
...average of 31,500 per game-more people, as Foss iked to point out, than the biggest crowd at any game in the league's first year. Last August the league expanded to nine teams-adding a franchise in Miami-and now there is talk of a tenth tearn in Chicago. How much Foss had to do with all this is a moot question. Very little, said his enemies among the owners-and last week they forced him to quit with a year still to go on his 50,000-a-year contract. As Foss's sucessor they...
...large African grasshopper to catch and kill a mouse, and giant water bugs commonly capture and devour small snakes. Almost any beetle can lift 850 times its own weight; to do as much, a man would have to lift 62 tons. And the common flea, which measures one-tenth of an inch, can jump twelve inches, or 120 times its own length; to do as much, a man would have to jump 720 feet...
...united academic and creative pursuits more successfully than most recent poets. His Crane biography is the work of a strenuously intelligent man wrestling with one of his familiars; his first long poem, the Homage to Mistress Bradstreet(1953) treat a necessarily arcane subject, America's first poetress, the "tenth muse" Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672). It is a work of scholarship in fifty-seven stanzas that took four and half years to research. And his most recent book cangles whimsically with that ever less unattractive, increasingly charismatic image: the college professor...
...Practical. A potato-faced pug, noted mainly for his high threshold of pain and his mastery of the "upper-cup"-a left hook to an opponent's private parts-Chuvalo was ranked tenth among the World Boxing Association's top ten heavyweights. True, he had never been knocked down in 47 pro fights, but he had lost eleven, including three of the last eight-to Floyd Patterson, Ernie Terrell and an Argentine named Eduardo Corletti. Sportswriters called the fight "the mismatch of the decade"; bookmakers installed Clay as the 1-to-7 favorite-and then refused to take...