Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boxing is the granddaddy of one-on-one sports," he said, and he went on to discourse on what makes a good fighter. "The best fighters are the best liars. Every boxer is scared in the ring, but the one who doesn't show it usually wins...
George Jackson, who is working on the club with DiNicola, said he would like to see Harvard field an intercollegiate boxing team "if the interest is there." Both of them stressed that physical conditioning is the boxer's paramount concern, as well as his formidable...
Three members of the Harvard community have amassed a small fortune this fall by marketing novelty boxer shorts...
...killing was capable of such a deed. "I never thought he was at all unstable," said former Supervisor Terry François. "Just a normal young father," added another acquaintance. Intensely competitive, White had been captain of both the baseball and football teams and a Golden Gloves boxer while attending San Francisco's Woodrow Wilson High School. Son of a San Francisco fireman, he served in Viet Nam, then worked 3½ years as a policeman. He somehow managed to buy first an $8,000 Jaguar, then a $15,000 Porsche, before taking a leave of absence to hitchhike...
During one of the routine, twice-yearly physical examinations required for all boxers under West German regulations, a standard electroencephalogram showed an "irregularity" in KÖpcke's brain-wave pattern. Doctors then used the CAT (for "computerized axial tomography") scanner to make cross-section images of the boxer's brain and discovered, in their words, "a fairly common, apparently congenital anomaly between the cerebrum and cerebellum"-a condition that might make him particularly susceptible to injury from blows to the head. Hamburg's amateur boxing association believed it had no other choice; it banned the apparently...