Word: aly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wheedles. He stares ferretlike down his long nose, droning in a voice that sounds like a cross between a buzz saw and Bronx sneer. "Did you take a dive in the Clay fight?" he demands of Son ny Listen. Or as Muhammad Ali launches into his pitch for Muslimism, Cosell cuts in sharply: "Awright, we've been through that...
...help more natives prepare for business, Kenya Shell Ltd. and the country's Ministry of Education have put together an illustrated book in Swahili, with English translations, on rudimentary business practices. Featured are Mr. Shida, a bumbling, unsuccessful shopkeeper, and Mr. Ali, a progressive, flourishing entrepreneur. Mr. Shida, for example; is in serious trouble because his debtors are slow to pay him. Mr. Ali, by contrast, avoids that kind of bind by shrewdly refusing to give credit. A typical lesson deals with the display of merchandise in shop windows: "One of these cakes has flies on it. The other...
...Ali is fast becoming a more representative figure in Kenya than Mr. Shida. In its eagerness to develop a native cadre of businessmen, however, Kenya must use restraint. Pressed by the government to aid in the effort, many non-African businessmen note that effective training takes time. And a group of University of Nairobi economists, African and white alike, has warned that Africanization, essential as it is, could impair Kenya's continued economic growth if pushed too fast...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Sonny Liston, beaten by Muhammad Ali in '64 and '65, more recently staging a comeback under Sammy Davis Jr.'s management, takes on up-and-cutting Henry Clark in a ten-round bout, live from San Francisco...
Philadelphia's Joe Frazier, 24, will never float like a butterfly or sting like a bee. He does not even practice poetastry or Islam. Though he is no Muhammad Ali, Joltin' Joe is still the second-best heavyweight in the world, and there is excitement in his artless approach to his trade. Utterly lacking in fistic science, Frazier is a slugger in the savage style of Rocky Marciano. "I punch and get punched," says Joe. "He lays it on me, and I lay it on him. That's what fightin' is all about...