Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...senior class marshals yesterday extended an invitation to Muhammad Ali to speak here on Class Day after Bill Cosby and Mel Brooks declined invitations...
Harden H. Weidemann '75, chairman of the Class Day Committee, said yesterday that "more people have spoken to me about getting Ali than anyone else...
...chairman will need it. The loan negotiations with Iran appear to be in trouble. One reason: the Iranians demand that General Ali Khademi, chief executive of Iran Air, also be added to Pan Am's board...
...Running a major studio is more difficult than running a small country," Paramount Production Boss Robert Evans once observed. Now, after three failed marriages (including one to Actress Ali MacGraw) and a string of box office successes (Godfather I and II, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Love Story), Evans is abdicating his Paramount throne. This week Evans, 44, begins anew as an independent producer under contract to Paramount, responsible for up to 24 new films over the next six years. Among his projects: a sequel to Chinatown and a remake of the 1946 classic, Notorious. Evans' decision to quit...
Technical Knockout. Not until after his ninth-round tumble did Ali start fighting with wrath. Incarnadine but oaken-hearted, Wepner would not fall: a 10-1 underdog, he had never been knocked off his feet. Then, in the 15th round, with 19 seconds left to the fight, Ali slammed a right into Wepner's bloody face and spilled him into the ropes. Although Wepner was lurching up by the count of nine, the fight was over, ended by Perez on a technical knockout. Braverman and other aides half-hauled Wepner's beaten body back to his corner...