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...whose sole asset was Joe Frazier's punching power. Cloverlay agreed to pay Frazier's manager and training expenses, guarantee Joe $100 a week. Joe has repaid his stockholders handsomely. Some fight fans could protest that Frazier was not in the same class with deposed Champion Cassius Clay-and they might be right-yet he clearly proved last week that he is a legitimate pretender to the dethroned champion's crown. Conceding 39 lbs., 3½ in. of height and 2½ in. of reach to the massive Mathis, who had beaten him twice as an amateur...
Unfrocked Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali, 26, born Cassius Clay, is not quite the patsy that Havana Radio thought he was. Castro's crier expected Cassius to contribute a few bitter words about the U.S. in connection with the opening in Havana of a movie biography, Cassius Clay, made by a French company but not released in the U.S. A Cuban reporter reached him by phone, began pumping him with on-the-air questions about everything from boxing to Viet Nam. Hold on, said Cassius: "This interview will not make me any money. No money, no conversation." Humphed Havana Radio...
...better-than-average coordination is the only ticket out of poverty. Negro track stars like John Lindsay's Director of Recreation, Hayes Jones, often use the publicity of an Olympic medal to land good jobs, the standouts in team sports go on to play for pay, and boxers like Cassius Clay and Floyd Patterson win professional crowns...
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Jimmy Ellis takes on Oscar Bonavena in a semifinal round of the elimination tournament to find a heavyweight champion to replace Cassius ("Muhammad Ali") Clay. Live from Lexington...
...perhaps in the end a costly showdown between black and white that might send U.S. race relations all the way back to the post-Reconstruction period. The new movement quickly developed its list of fanatical leaders: Stokeley Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, Ron Karenga and, in his special way, Cassius Clay. It fed largely on the despair and disaffection of the poor, the uneducated, the slum-bound Negro who had nothing to lose but his life...