Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Functioning Normally. Demirel, a onetime engineer turned reform-minded politician, seemed unable to pacify the country's warring factions. He lost considerable personal prestige by using his influence to swing a reported $2,000,000 in bank loans for his two businessmen brothers, Sevket and Ali, and then trying to block a parliamentary investigation of the affair. When four U.S. airmen were kidnaped two weeks ago (see box), Demirel left it to others to appeal to the kidnapers to spare the airmen's lives. His weak performance finally exhausted the patience of Turkey's generals...
After months of drumbeating, chest thumping and lip flapping, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier finally came to blows last week. And after 15 punishing rounds, the much ballyhooed "Fight of the Century" established two unmistakable truths. The first was that Frazier, in pounding out a decision over Ali, had proved himself to be the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. The second was that Joe had been absolutely right when he predicted it would be "one hell of a fight...
Given the extraordinary interest in what Ali grandiloquently called "the biggest sporting event in the history of the whole planet earth," anything short of a slugfest would have been anticlimactic. The two heavyweights delivered-and so did the fans. TV hookups, which beamed the bout to 300 million viewers in 46 countries, pushed the total gate to a possible $20 million. According to Las Vegas bookies, the fight generated an estimated $1 billion in bets. On the big night, Madison Square Garden scalpers were demanding-and getting-$850 for a $150 ringside seat...
Hook for Hook. The action in the ring was thoroughly in keeping with the action outside. Very little went according to plan-certainly not Ali's plan, which called for a sixth-round knockout of Frazier. At the opening bell, Joe, the most fearsome body puncher around, went immediately-and wildly-for Ali's head. Ali, the celebrated stick-and-run dancer, very often stood flatfooted and, in what proved to be his ultimate undoing, tried trading hook for jolting hook. In the early going, Ali's long, rapid-fire jabs and lightning combinations kept the ever...
Slowly finding his rhythm, Frazier seemed to grow stronger as Ali began to weaken. In the eleventh round, the roundhouse lefts that had earlier been missing Ali by as much as a full foot began to find their mark. Rocked by two hammering hooks, the staggering Ali barely managed to hang on until the bell. Coming back, Ali won the 14th, but 21 seconds into the final round, Frazier caught him with a head-snapping left hook that dropped him flat on his back. Dazed, Ali was up at the count of three, but his game attempt to rally...