Word: cassius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...content to be known as Mwalimu-Swahili for teacher. Where other leaders use their high-powered, government-owned radios for propaganda messages, Nyerere uses his to broadcast casual eco nomic lessons. Recently he translated Shakespeare's Julius Caesar into Swahili, and although after Caesar's assassination Cassius shouts "Uhuru, uhuru!", Tanganyika's Julius was careful to avoid equating himself with Rome...
...thing about Cassius Clay. He is a man of his word. "I'm gonna shake up this town," said the world's heavy weight champion last week...
Diplomatic Black. Next stop for Cassius was the United Nations. "I am champion of the whole world," he announced grandly, "and I want to meet all the people I am champion of." Carefully attired in diplomatic black and surrounded by his ubiquitous Black Muslim advisers (wherever Cassius went, Malcolm X was sure to go), he strode boldly into the delegates' lounge-instantly creating what one observer described as "the biggest sensation since Khrushchev took off his shoe." Complained Turkish Ambassador Turgut Menemencioglu: "They're more interested in Cassius than in Cyprus." Delegates lined up to shower him with...
...Allah Said No." Next day Cassius turned up for another press conference to take care of one last item of business. Weeks before, he had promised reporters a "whole new personality" if he won the title. Now Clay rummaged around in his bag of tricks. And what did he come up with? A white rabbit? No-a Black Muslim. Cassius used to be a Protestant. No longer. He had joined the militantly antiwhite Negro sect. "My religion is Islam," he said, "and I am proud of it. Followers of Allah are the sweetest people in the world. They...
...Cassius kidding? Nobody knew. Nobody ever knows with Cassius. All anybody knows is that, at 22, Cassius Marcellus Clay's mouth and magic have cornered the world championship and most of $1,000,000-$600,000 from last week's fight alone. There is no telling how much more money Clay can make if he decides to give Sonny Liston a return bout. There is the unsettled matter of his Army service, and there are rumors of a fox in his future. But whatever he does, it will probably turn out right. "I've got a lock...