Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fight after fight appeared on the screen, whether it was live from Las Vegas or taped in San Juan, the fact that Muhammed Ali "came out of retirement" last week occurred to me. Suddenly, it struck me. Boxing is back, my friends, in a big, big way. My question...
...proliferation of the fight game is something we owe not to Ali or Howard Cosell, but to the 1976 Olympics. For it was in Montreal that men such as Sugar Ray Leonard, Howard Davis and Leon Spinks first received national attention and adoration--feelings they regenerated by turning professional...
...could state, and get no argument from me, that Ali carried the sport of boxing from 1966 up until just a short time ago. The name Ali and the word "boxing" were synonymous in most people's eyes. And rightfully so, since the lower weights were producing no one of great charisma, such as a Sugar Ray Robinson, and the heavyweight division, outside of Joe Frazier, simply had no one to offer. Boxing was Ali and Ali was boxing...
...demands of Khaalis and his followers were eventually pieced together. They wanted the Muslims convicted for the 1973 murders handed over to them, presumably for execution. They asked to have Wallace Muhammad, the Bilalian leader, and Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali, long an active Black Muslim supporter, brought to them. Khaalis also insisted that he be refunded $750 in legal fees caused by a contempt of court citation. During the trial of his family's killers, he had denounced them in court. He also wanted the recently released film Mohammad, Messenger of God, to be banned on the grounds that...
...that "when Mother gets home we'll either have very good relations with India or they'll be destroyed once again," Miss Lillian, 78, and Grandson Chip, 26, flew to New Delhi to lead the official U.S. delegation at the funeral last week of Indian President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. Jimmy Carter had nothing to worry about. His mother's Southern grace charmed everyone, including Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who invited her home for what Miss Lillian called "a nice, family time." Said Mrs. Gandhi: "I am deeply touched...