Word: bouting
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With the time to the fight measured now in hours, Ali had no presentiment that this was the bout when the overarching years would finally catch him: "I've never felt better. I've never been in better shape." He spoke to TIME Correspondent James Wilde in a sleepy whisper: "Because people know athletes are superior physically, when they see these men go downhill, they see themselves. Everything gets old. The pyramids of Egypt are now crumbling. Buildings crumble, and so do monuments of all kinds. When we look at our bodies, we see how its shape is changing...
Spinks' early competition came straight from Palookaville. He easily dispatched his first opponent, a Brooklyn butcher named Lightning Bob Smith. Three first-round K.O.s followed, and in fight No. 5, Spinks' competitor withdrew at the last minute. A standin, signed just hours before the scheduled bout, left in a stupor after three rounds. By then, even Spinks' ho-hum matches against Journeyman Scott LeDoux and Italian Alfio Righetti could not dim his TV marketability...
With the Crimson down 5-4 after a heartening victory by Leslie Feder, who also chalked up 1-3, Sze lost a particularly crucial bout. After climbing back from 4-3 to tie the duel at 4-4, she fell to Yale's Peacock...
Cooper had one 5-4 loss, to Yale's Jennifer Albert in her second bout. Distracted by some controversy on the nearby men's strip over a particular call, Cooper's concentration wavered and Albert took advantage...
Harvard still had a slim chance of eking out a victory, and Tony Cimmarusti kept those hopes alive by pinning Jeff Linson at 4:15 in the 177-lb. bout for six more Crimson points...