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Insisting that he is not primarily a prizefighter called Cassius Clay but a minister of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam in the Wilderness of North America (Black Muslims) named Muhammad Ali, the world's heavyweight champion last week climaxed his 14-round title bout with selective service by refusing to be inducted into the Army. Reclassified I A after the Army rejiggered its mental tests to a new low level last year, Clay has fought ever since to win draft exemption. After losing three separate petitions to the U.S. Supreme Court and endless other legal maneuverings, Clay...
BLACK IS BEST, by Jack Olsen. The amusing, confusing life and times of Cassius Clay in a sharp-eyed biography that unerringly-and engagingly-separates fact from bigmouth blab...
...wrote 5,000 former delegates and alternates to Democratic conventions requesting support, got only 28 positive replies. Said an Oregonian: "The only time I would favor Senator Fulbright for any office would be in the event his opponent was Wayne Morse, in which case I would probably vote for Cassius Clay...
...beyond, and the Organization of African Unity has even threatened to throw out Malawi as long as he is there. Banda is unimpressed. Last week he went before his Parlia ment to answer his critics with a quotation from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats...
...principal. Located in Albany's slum-ridden east side, it is an academy for hard cases-40% are Negro, many of the students come from broken homes, still others are dropouts from other schools. But Ben Becker is a hard case himself. A onetime amateur boxer who was Cassius Clay's manager at the 1960 Olympics, Becker has a broken nose, scar tissue around his eyes-and a brain-jolting jab in his fists. A boy who abuses a teacher will be challenged by his principal to a quiet meeting behind closed doors. The problem is usually solved...