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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cloverlay Inc., 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: Show for the Case | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...most impressive team of racing drivers ever assembled: four men who among them have won three 500s and three Grand Prix championships. The four are the U.S.'s Parnelli Jones, 34, the 1963 Indy winner; England's mustachioed Graham Hill, 39, the 1966 winner and Grand Prix champion in 1962; Scotland's flashy young Jackie Stewart, 28; and Scotland's 32-year-old Jim Clark (TIME cover, July 9, 1965), who won the 500 in 1965 and has more Grand Prix victories (25) to his credit than any other racer in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Bombs for the Brickyard | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...Champion Columbia won a berth in the Eastern Regional semi-finals with a convincing 83-69 victory over LaSalle, Saturday night. Sophomore star Heyward Dotson got 32 points to lead the Columbia attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Red Is ECAC Champ; NCAA, NIT Pick Fields | 3/11/1968 | See Source »

...John's of New York scared Davidson, the Southern Conference Champion, before succumbing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Red Is ECAC Champ; NCAA, NIT Pick Fields | 3/11/1968 | See Source »

Nayar, newly-crowed intercollegiate champion, downed the 40-year-old Salaun...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nayar Captures Mass State Title | 3/11/1968 | See Source »

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