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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nominate Muhammad Ali. He is the only person I know who has done what he said he was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 29, 1975 | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...looks like I'm gettin' ready to fight someone," Muhammad Ali mused as he stared at the 20,000 people packed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week. The occasion was a battle of sorts: a benefit concert for Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, a black middleweight boxer imprisoned since 1966 for a murder that he claims he did not commit. "You people out there, you have the connection and the complexion to get the protection," quoth Ah before surrendering the stage to a four-hour musical downpour that starred Bob Dylan, sounding like the old adenoidal prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 22, 1975 | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...dollars in loans, and millions more in obligations are falling due soon. Algeria has threatened to cut off all oil supplies unless Zaïre pays $20 million in overdue bills. Meanwhile, Le Guide has been spending neither wisely nor well. He shelled out $11 million to sponsor the Ali-Foreman fight "to put the country on the map," and another $14 million went for Portuguese wine to lubricate last week's festivities. Mobutu has been told by the International Monetary Fund to change his ways if he wants $170 million in new loans, and in an anniversary speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZAIRE: Ten Years of Le Guide | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...Greatest is more than a sports book. Boxing fans will love it because it does say a lot about boxing and boxers, but it goes far beyond that. Ali's realist and he knows himself, and that sometime he will be finally defeated. Ali quotes Archie Moore (George Foreman's trainer) as saying, "Your time is coming. Your day will come...

Author: By Andy Quigley, | Title: Winner and Still Champ | 12/3/1975 | See Source »

...right now, Muhammad Ali is The Greatest. "The referee is raising my hand and the whole world is shouting 'Ali! Ali! Ali...

Author: By Andy Quigley, | Title: Winner and Still Champ | 12/3/1975 | See Source »

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