Word: alie
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MISERY LOVES company, and maybe that explains the kind words Muhammed Ali had for President Ford on "Meet the Press" last Sunday. Ali said he like Ford a lot, though he didn't go so far as to endorse him, since he wasn't sure he was going to vote this year anyway. Still smarting from being whupped by an upstart youngster named Jimmy Young on Friday night, Ali could take consolation in the fact that the judges, who apparently slept through the last five rounds, awarded him a narrow decision. But he was embarrassed enough that he probably...
...hated to give them up," admitted Muhammad Ali. But the heavyweight soon kayoed his emotions. Thus on June 9, a pair of 8-oz. gloves and a terrycloth robe will join historical memorabilia like Babe Ruth's bat and Eli Whitney's cotton gin on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. "It's a great museum with its little cars and trains," observed the champ, who took time out in the capital to mug with a statue of Washington. "My gloves may be more popular," Ali added, referring to the mitts that in 1974 beat...
...wife, Ballet Dancer Anne Byrne, live in New York City. Says he: "If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes." He is extravagantly proud of his wife, who stopped dancing to have two children, but who is now "making a comeback second only to Muhammad Ali." He concludes, "She is the toughest of the tough of the tough...
...Dylan had been singing for it. Muhammad Ali had given speeches for it. Selwyn Raab, a New York Times reporter, had pushed for it in a series of crusading investigative articles. Finally, last week it came about: the nine-year-old murder conviction of Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, 38, and also that of his friend John Artis, 30, was unanimously thrown out by the seven justices of the New Jersey Supreme Court. The "defendants' right to a fair trial was substantially prejudiced," said Justice Mark Sullivan, because the prosecution had failed to disclose evidence about the reliability...
Then in 1973 Raab was asked to help investigate the case. He and others found Bello and Bradley, each of whom said he had lied in his identification. Carter wrote a hard, seething book, The Sixteenth Round (Viking, $11.95), about his life before and in prison. Soon Dylan, Ali and other celebrities joined the push to free Carter (TIME, Dec. 22). In the end, though, it was a legal misstep that led to last week's victory...