Word: angelo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unable to do much more than try to shield himself after the eighth round, Ali held on with the courage that, through 59 fights, had always carried him the distance. For two rounds, he seemed to be running on will alone. Indeed, Trainer Angelo Dundee had wanted to stop the fight after the ninth round, but others in Ali's entourage objected. After the next round, Manager Herbert Muhammad stepped in and asked Referee Richard Greene to end it. Said Greene: "I would have stopped it anyhow. He was bloody-eyed, and there was an overall lack of response...
...refused, and his trainer Angelo Dundee responded by calling a halt to the proceedings between the tenth and eleventh rounds, marking an end to the career of Muhammad...
...weeks--many students left Harvard to serve in the militia, and, by one report, "all seemed to enjoy a good fling." But the strike committee, with representatives of 24 nationalities, held the strike together. After pictures and newspaper accounts of the violence and the victory, the scene shifts to Angelo Rocco, an old man now. Standing on the banks of the Merrimack, he points across to the brick mills, now abandoned, and says in a heavy accent, "They called us un-American, but I really disagree with that. We were born in a foreign country, sure, but we love America...
Something was obviously up, and Defense Attorney Ray Brown warned his client, Mayor Angelo Errichetti of Camden, N.J., to expect the worst. Just over an hour later, the jurors returned to the federal courtroom in Brooklyn with a verdict: all four defendants were guilty of bribery, conspiracy and interstate travel in aid of racketeering. In addition to Errichetti, the defendants were Democratic Congressman Michael ("Ozzie") Myers, City Councilman Louis C. Johanson and Lawyer Harry Criden, all from Philadelphia. The four were accused of sharing in a $50,000 bribe from FBI agents posing as representatives of an Arab sheik...
Wearing a cream-colored suit, brown-tinted aviator glasses and diamond rings on each pinkie, Weinberg last week began a new role: as the star witness of the first ABSCAM trial. The defendants are Mayor Angelo Errichetti of Camden, N.J., and three Philadelphians: Democratic Congressman Michael ("Ozzie") Myers, City Councilman Louis C. Johanson and Lawyer Howard Criden. All are accused of accepting $50,000 from FBI agents posing as representatives of a fictitious Arab sheik in return for Myers' promise to introduce an immigration bill...