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...years before, Johnson had won the title after pursuing the white champion around the world to get the fight and around the ring during it. On this hot day in Reno, Johnson toyed with his opponent. Hitting him at will with either hand, Johnson mocked Jeffries, as the ex-champ groped for clinches with lines like "Oh, Mr. Jeff, don't love me so." Jeffries went down twice in the 15th round and got up once...
...poetry before it-Ali has done much to revive John-it-Ali has done much to revive Johnson (could anyone imagine The Great White Hope as anything more than a cruel joke during Floyd Patterson's reign?) and, in his way, has suppressed him... at least made the old champ safe for women and children. And as with Johnson, it has been Ali's style that has made him champion of the world. And like Johnson, he has been prosecuted under a selective...
...there is a tragedy in this "Fight of Champions," Joe Frazier is the Othello and the takers, that vast locust combine, play Iago. The prefight publicity has made it impossible for Frazier ever to be champ to black America and the rest of the world. Rather than revealing him as another black man of different convictions from Ali, the PR portrayed him as a vacuous white hope in blackface...
...student Bob O'Neal, was willing to run through a collection of head-ons and profiles before the camera. Is it possible this could be a psyche move by the three-time champion? Or was Gary just upset because of the way the standing-room-only crowd drenched the champ in a thunderstorm of boos during his semi-final match yesterday...
...examine the four types of suburbs delineated in the Harris studies, TIME correspondents visited an example of each. Chicago Bureau Chief Champ Clark, who worked for six years on the Kansas City Star, went back for this report on a typical affluent bedroom community...