Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prevent any avalanche of applicants, Tarr insisted that the court's decision was not retroactive. His position will almost certainly be challenged in court. Moreover, many rejected C.O.s are now likely to reapply for exemption. The decision may also help deposed Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali, who is fighting a five-year sentence for refusing induction on the ground that he is a Black Muslim minister. One of Ali's lawyers claims that the boxer's case has a better chance before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit "now that theology has been taken...
...corner, so Flex said why don't they take it over. Rocco told the chicks to go away for a few minutes so they could try to get some new chicks. But nothing came by, so ali six of them headed for the Square, There'd be action there...
...does he? There is plenty of dispute from Muhammad Ali (ne Cassius Clay), the fellow whom Ring magazine still lists as the No. 1 heavyweight. Shortly after he was stripped of his title in 1967 over a draft-evasion charge, Muhammad prophesied that he would return to spook the sport: "There I'll be, wearing a sheet and whispering, 'Ali-e-e-e-e, Ali-e-e-e-e.' I'll be the ghost that haunts boxing, and people will say Ali is the real champ and anyone else is a fake." Last week...
Even at Leavenworth. Nonsense or not, the presence of "the loudmouth," as he calls him, bugs Frazier. At 26, Joe is just two years younger than the champion-in-exile, and he knows that not until he defeats Ali in the ring can he completely shuck the "fake champ" label. Frazier's manager. Yancey Durham, has always told him: "Every time you're fighting, you got to think you're in there with Clay." Repeatedly asked about the former champ, whose conviction is currently under appeal, Frazier says: "I'd love to fight Clay, even...
Though chances seem remote, last week one of Ali's lawyers announced that he was opening negotiations for a match with Frazier in Toronto in May. With no other worthy opponent in sight, Frazier and the rest of the boxing world could only savor the prospect. After last week's bout, Frazier allowed that he was going to take his 30% share of the gate, which should come to $300,000 or so, and go to Las Vegas to debut his nightclub singing act with a nine-piece combo called the Knockouts. Then, he said...