Word: ali
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snarled the Lip when a couple of plainclothesmen stopped the 1962 Cadillac in which he was being chauffeured around the South Side. The car didn't have any license plates, and it was cruising slowly through a high-theft district-which attracted the cops' attention. Cassius-Muhammed Ali thought it was a clear case of lèse majesté, pointing to his Black Muslim lapel pin and yelling: "You can't arrest me! I represent another government-the Negro government. I'm a $15 million-a-year man, and you're nothing...
...many years ago, in an Arab village, a baby was born with weak legs. Little Ali might well have learned to stand on his own feet, but after he had fallen down a few times his mother's heart ached for the poor child and she decided that he was a permanent invalid and had to be carried everywhere. Everybody suspected that the boy was not necessarily a cripple, but it was not unpleasant to have somebody dependent around, an easy butt for the sort of generosity that makes one person feel big because it makes another person seem...
...threatening suicide in the back seat of a taxi. On stage at the Sahara, Comedian Buddy Hackett talked for 56 minutes straight - partly about his boy hood bouts with pimples, caused by lack of sex. And at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Cassius Clay, alias Muhammad Ali, spat carefully on the floor while Eddie Fisher was singing The Star-Spangled Banner. Clay, 23, then proceeded to demolish Floyd Patterson, 30, in defense of the heavyweight championship of the world...
Well, I do know, of course, and so does everybody else. Clay (or Muhammed Ali, if you wish) is on the threshhold of becoming the greatest heavyweight in the history of the ring. Floyd Patterson, Clay's opponent in Las Vegas tonight, will open the door just another crack. That's all; nothing more, nothing less...
...Egypt's Nasser in recent months. Nasser eschews talk of war, whether against Israel or the Yemeni royalists. At the Arab summit in Casablanca last September, he counseled fellow delegates to concentrate on setting their own houses in order, and showed the way by replacing left-leaning Premier Ali Sabry's government with a new, efficiency-minded one headed by Zakaria Mohieddin...