Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure to watch Ricardo Wilson and John Youngs at 175. Wilson, Adams' only Analist, is a picturebook boxer, and is one of the college's finest counterpunchers. He has taken the championship each time he has entered. Youngs drew a bye in the semifinals yesterday...
First in Johannesburg, and then the Rhodesias, Sigauke took jobs, from busboy to boxer, until he finally landed a well-paying position as a traveling salesman, peddling clothing to retailers all over Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. "That job brought status because I owned a car," he says. "I drove an Opel and then a Biscayne for two years, and I learned to know every road and every Mozambican in the Rhodesias." On one return trip to Mozambique he was arrested by the authorities, who could not believe that an African could earn enough money...
...Twofold Path. When the modern world broke into Asia during the 19th century, Buddhism resisted. In the Boxer Rebellion, Buddhist deities were relied on for help against the Christian bullets. In Indo-China, Burma and elsewhere, Buddhism became identified with the nationalist struggle against colonial rule...
...women and children. Kill them all! Have no scruples!" The Simbas (Swahili for "lions") of Rebel General Nicholas Olenga did their best to carry out the order. In the Avenue Sergeant Kitele, according to some survivors, the command to fire was given by "Major Bubu," a deaf-mute ex-boxer addicted to hemp who served as personal bodyguard to Rebel Defense Minister Gaston Soumialot. Bubu's order could not have been a scream, but in its strangled, inarticulate ferocity must have expressed precisely the blood lust of the Simbas...
...Should Say Not!" Gloria's two friends corroborated parts of her story but not all of it. Geri Boxer, who said she became friendly with Gloria because she is "accomplished in a lot of respects a college girl wouldn't be," said she helped dump the trunk but did not know what was in it. Broudy said Fein told him that someone else had shot the bookie...