Word: aly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After his move to Atlanta, Morgan defended such celebrated legal challenges to the Vietnam War as Muhammed Ali's draft resistance and the seating of Julian Bond, the Georgia State Legislature's first black member since Reconstruction. The legislature had voted to reject Bond for his outspoken opposition to the war in his 1966 campaign...
...surprising as Heikal's discharge was Sadat's choice of a successor. The job went to Ali Amin, 59, former co-publisher with his twin brother Mustafa of the rival al Akhbar, who only last month returned to Egypt from a nine-year self-imposed exile I in London. Amin, often attacked as too pro-Western, had refused to come home as a protest against the imprisonment of his brother by Nasser on charges of handing over state secrets to the CIA. Mustafa Amin was recently freed on Sadat's orders, together with a number of political...
...Muhammad Ali glowed in a white satin robe while Joe Frazier menaced in crushed velvet with "Smokin' Joe across the back. Still, the two ex-champ fighting last week in Madison Square Garden were all but lost sartorially to their fans. It was a crowd of funk-furred and metallic-threaded celebrities, including Chanteuse Bette Midler in jeans and mink, New York Knick Star Walt Frazier in a bold red and white blazer, Actor Jack Nicholson in loud pin stripes, Barbra Streisand in a sombrero, plus Senators Edward Kennedy and John Tunney in mufti. Ali Partisan John Kennedy...
...FIGHTERS concerns the first Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier bout in March 1971 and shows every moment of every round, recorded by a battery of cameras stationed all over Madison Square Garden. With only this fight footage, meticulously edited, Director William Greaves would have had a fine sports film. What lifts The Fighters out of the special-interest category is the first hour of documentary on the preparations for the match. The fighters, the promoters, the managers, the hangers-on, all speak a kind of spiked Odets chatter that makes the movie look and sound like...
...Ali is shrewdly pyrotechnical, as usual, Frazier stolid but with a certain quiet wit. Asked just before the match how the $2.5 million purse makes him feel, he replies with ironic deliberation that "it gives me the inspiration to do a little more." The Fighters captures the skill and challenge of the sport, as well as its grand carnival spirit, as surely and lovingly as AJ. Liebling did in The Sweet Science. That is saying a great deal...