Word: champion
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Gonzalez, now 47, first got his fireworks reputation when, as a young champion of peoples' rights, he played cops & robbers with Dictator Carlos Ibañez' police. Arrested, he begged permission to blow his nose, instead sprinted two blocks to the Radical Club, where fellow members protected him. As late as last year, quick-tempered Sr. Gonzalez slung an inkwell at a fellow Senator in a congressional free...
...Sugar" Ray Robinson is a miniature Joe Louis: nobody wants to fight him either. The big difference between Sugar Ray and Joe-besides 60 pounds-is that Joe is a champ. But last week, Sugar Ray, the hard-luck guy of boxing, was all set to get a champion's chance...
Died. Frank Seaman Dymoke, 84, hereditary King's Champion,* whose family has held the office since 1377 and who himself bore the standard of England at the coronations of Edward VII, George V and George VI; in London...
...Traditionally the King's Champion rode on horseback into the coronation banquet hall, flung down a gauntlet, challenged anyone to challenge the new king's right to the throne. No one ever has. The ceremony was last enacted at the coronation of William...
Boxing (Fri. 10 p.m., Mutual). Fifteen rounds in Madison Square Garden for the world's welterweight championship between Champion Marty Servo and Challenger Ray ("Sugar") Robinson...