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...years, Morrison's has branched into fields ranging from coffeemaking to insurance, with the result that noncafeteria operations accounted for 27% of last year's profits of $1,885,-000. This week, in a $7,600,000 stock-swap deal, the company takes over Memphis-based Admiral Benbow Inn, Inc., which operates a chain of 15 restaurants and ten motels...
...still a genuine tough guy - with a record of 51 knockouts and 65 victories in 71 pro fights. "Williams has the essential of a real champion - a punch," said ex-Champion Joe Louis, and the Cat's manager, Oilman Hugh Benbow, predicted: "We're going to knock Clay's brains...
...Benbow first saw Williams in 1960, when the Big Cat was knocked out in the third round by Sonny Listen. Even on his back, Williams was impressive. Part Negro, part Cherokee, he stands 6 ft.2½in. and weighs 215 lbs.; his reach is 83 in. (4 in. longer than Clay's), and his 48-in. chest tapers to a 32-in. waist. "That fella could be great if he was trained properly," Benbow decided, and in 1962 bought up his contract for $20,000. Over the next two years, Williams won seven fights, lost only one, developed...
...Cleveland did, and it almost cost him his life. Flagged down for speeding, he got in a scuffle with a Texas state trooper-and caught a .357 magnum bullet in the belly. Four operations (plus 30 days in jail) later and 58 lbs. lighter, he went to work on Benbow's 2,600-acre cattle ranch in Yoakum, Texas, tossing 80-lb. hay bales to rebuild his atrophied muscles. Finally, last June, Williams scored a third-round TKO over Tod Herring, the tenth-ranked heavyweight contender, thereby won a shot at Champion Clay...
...Manager Benbow insists that the Big Cat will demolish Cassius; "Clay is a stinker, a bum, a clown," he says. But regardless of what happens Nov. 14, he figures that his and Williams' share of the pot will top $500,000, and he has already decided how to spend it. "I'm going to have a stable of 40 to 50 young fighters," he says. "I want them from every race and creed, from all over the world." Benbow plans to build a woodworking plant on his ranch; his boxers will spend their days turning out "the finest...