Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...downright humiliating. There was poor old Jimmy Ellis training for the fight of his life and all that anyone talked about was who Muhammad Ali would meet after he polished off Jimmy What's-His-Name. Trouble was, Ellis was Ali's longtime friend and former sparring partner. They even had the same trainer. Thus the prospect of Ali meeting someone he had already sparred with for 1,000 rounds or so was about as exciting as the late, late, late show. Ellis made menacing noises and Ali tried to work up his customary public fury over...
...bloodbath is all over East Pakistan. Whole sections of cities lie in ruins from shelling and aerial attacks. In Khalishpur, the northern suburb of Khulna, naked children and haggard women scavenge the rubble where their homes and shops once stood. Stretches of Chittagong's Hizari Lane and Maulana Sowkat Ali Road have been wiped out. The central bazaar in Jessore is reduced to twisted masses of corrugated tin and shattered walls. Kushtia, a city of 40,000, now looks, as a World Bank team reported, "like the morning after a nuclear attack." In Dacca, where soldiers set sections...
...Kennedy joined TIME's Chicago bureau, later came to New York to become one of our most prolific "entertainment specialists," writing a dozen covers including those on rock 'n' roll, Rowan and Martin, Rudolf Nureyev, and the Frazier-Ali championship bout. Not long after he wrote our cover on television commercials, Kennedy, his wife Patsy and their eight children made a few commercials themselves...
...clients are apt to shun tie and jacket for open sports shirts. There is no alcohol, no floor show, no music-but big winners are provided with a ride home to protect their cash. "Elsewhere it is the bandits who benefit," says Djakarta's forceful mayor, Major General Ali Sadikin. "Here it is the government...
...Association and other boxing authorities began moving last week to restore him to the ranks of the officially recognized, none offered even a hint of apology. Asked if he would sue to recover some of the money he might have made during his 31 years as a boxing outcast, Ali quietly said no. "They only did what they thought was right at the time," he explained. "I did what I thought was right. That was all. I can't condemn them...