Word: champ
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Muhammad Ali (alias Cassius Clay), 26, ex-heavyweight champ, now appealing his conviction for draft-dodging, and Belinda Boyd Ali, 18: a girl, their first child; in Chicago...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Call Me Bwana (1963). Bob Hope drops in the rough of an African jungle with Golf Champ Arnold Palmer. Anita Ekberg helps them caddie along...
...many mill in the bank, was out there doing a fancy two-step with this bull about the size of a Volkswagen, when all of a sudden another guy climbed into the ring. His name was Miguelin; he was a rank contender, but he thought he ought to be champ. So what did Miguelin do? He strolled up to El Cordobés' bull, put one hand on its shoulder, another on its rear end, and spun it right around in a circle. Then he kissed the bull on the nose and strutted off. "Boy," Willie told Myra, "anyone...
...Cordobés, by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, who also wrote Is Paris Burning? (a proposition on which Willie would lay even money at the moment). At night, while Myra was washing her hair, Willie read about how El Cordobes, born Manuel Benitez, now 32, got to be champ-fighting 133 bulls in a single summer, a lot of them bums that even Rocky Marciano would have been ashamed to face. Some were purposely starved to make them weak. Others had sandbags dropped on their backs before the fight. Still others had their horns shaved down so that they...
...traveler's checks, he headed for Madrid's annual "Benefit Bullfight," where El Cordobés was scheduled to face two bulls. Betting on first-round knockdowns, Willie collected a bundle. The first bull was so weak that his knees buckled as soon as he spotted the champ's cape. The second was obviously in the tank; he stuck his head in the sand and calmly awaited the knockout. While the oldtime aficionados in the stands whistled El Cordobés out of the ring, Willie stood there happily, waving his big fist full of pesetas...