Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaders of Zaïre's 200 ethnic groups, Mobutu in return demanded and got almost feudal loyalty. High-living and profligate, he tried to burnish his image as a 20th century chief by such flamboyant stunts as the "Rumble in the Jungle" between Heavy-weights Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in 1974, which lost the government $4.1 million...
...remote town I was invited to lunch with a boy of fifteen at his home. Throughout the meal he asked questions about America: Had I heard of Muhammad Ali? Did I have a car? A wife?, and about Tunisia: Had I been to this or that place? Did I like Tunisia more than America? His younger brother was alternately trying to engage me in a game of ball and trying to elicit mistakes in Arabic from me which would make him giggle uncontrollably...
...Jimmy Young. Young's cover-up tactics and counterpunching created more than another dent in the former champ's fragile ego. They put a crimp in the multimillion-dollar plans of Promoter Don King to get Foreman back in the ring for a rematch with Titleholder Muhammad Ali. After flirting with retirement following his victory over Ken Norton last fall, the aging Ali has signed to fight unknown Italian Lorenzo Zanon for about $4 million in Korea this May. Zanon, not even heavyweight champ in his own country, will presumably be paid in pasta for the anticipated pasting...
...Ali was the answer. When placed against his greatest rival, Frazier, Ali was not only the floating butterfly and the stinging bee, but also the brain versus the brawn. The same was true in the Ali-Foreman fight...
...again things change. And the increased intelligence of boxers on the whole is something which can be mutually attributed to society and Ali. Interviews with Norton, Young and a boxer known as Armando Muniz all exhibited the tremendous rise of intellectual capacity in boxers when compared with the older, dumber models of Joe Louis and Rocky Graziano. Intelligence, then, as much as the increased flamboyance of fighters on all levels, has rejuvenated the flame in boxing--one which saw the most boxers in history participate in the New York Golden Gloves competition...