Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precinct captain, organizing voters on the South Side. He also received an early education in the rigors of competition. While at Du Sable High School, he won the city championship in the 120-yd. high hurdles. At the Civilian Conservation Corps camps, he became a no-nonsense amateur middleweight boxer who won 50 of 60 fights, 15 by knockout. Laughs the mayor-elect today: "I'm a pretty good bare-knuckles fighter...
...soft; he is heavy in the manner of Hemingway, not Hitchcock. His bushy hair is white and cropped more conservatively than in the past, when he was the Medusa of late-night television talk shows. His eyes are clear and surprisingly blue. He moves with the grace of the boxer he has sometimes pretended...
Casey's victory in the novice division, which matches fighters with a maximum of five previous bouts, marked the first time a Harvard boxer won the Golden Gloves in any division since Peter Fuller '46 won the open division heavyweight championship in 1949. The open division pairs fighters with unlimited amateur experience...
DIED. Yang Sun Nyo, 66, mother of South Korean Lightweight Boxer Kim Duk Koo, who died after a title fight with Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini last November; by her own hand (she drank a bottle of pesticide) after becoming despondent following her son's death; in Kojin, South Korea...
Hooker and Gondorff set out to pull off an incomparable 'sting' whose unbelievability is matched only by its complexity. Their plan involves Hooker posing as a professional boxer in a real fight, but the duplicity of side-kick Veronica (Teri Garr) and the cunning of enemy Lonnegan (Oliver Reed) throw snags into the action. Lonnegan plans to alert their dangerous prey (Karl Malden) to the plot, and so dispose neatly of the pair. The viewer, impatient by the time this has all been explained, finds new amendments unremarkable...