Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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REPORTING on the tense training days of Boxers Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali for this week's cover story required a generous amount of footwork and feinting by Correspondents Robert Anson and Joseph Kane. Both men nearly suffered technical knockouts in the first round...
Correspondent Kane found that Muhammad Ali was also difficult at first. "Appointments for interviews are unheard of. After four exasperating days, I simply followed him down the steps of Miami's Fifth Street Gym and piled into his limousine with him, told him who I was and we started talking." Ali finally talked for eight hours, much of the time while reading articles about himself in boxing magazines. He admitted that he is what he calls "a walnut personality." Says Kane: "By that he means he is hard on the outside, difficult to penetrate and wary of everyone trying...
Kennedy, who boxed in college, ventured a prediction on the outcome: "Ali will win in the 13th round." Kennedy's colleagues also offered their individual prophecies. Elson: "Ali will win by decision"; Kane: "Ali, by a decision"; Anson: "Frazier will score a knockout in the 8th round"; Mezey: "Frazier will win-it's my female intuition...
...Never Sang for My Father, Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces, James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope, Ryan O'Neal in Love Story) are all hanging right in there. The potential Best Actresses are, too. They include Carrie Snodgress in Diary of a Mad Housewife, Ali MacGraw in Love Story, Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope, Sarah Miles in Ryan's Daughter and Glenda Jackson in Women in Love. Nominations in the other categories included the usual mind-boggling number of mediocrities: Airport, for instance, received a total of ten, including one for Best Picture...
...Ali-e-e-e! Ali-e-e-e! There I'll be wearing a sheet and whispering Ali-e-e-e. I'll be the ghost that haunts boxing, and people will say, "Ali is the real champ and everyone else is a fake...