Word: champion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICAN GOLF CLASSIC (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Champion Al Geiberger defends his crown in the $100,000 event at the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Final round, 4:30 p.m. Sunday...
Pounds & Pages. There were signs that the larger white society was groping for the words. In Los Angeles, Democratic Mayor Sam Yorty, who has never been a conspicuous champion of the Negro cause, declared: "We must find ways of guaranteeing any man who wants to work a job-whatever it costs." In Detroit, Vice President Humphrey reasoned: "Whatever it will take to get the job done, we must be willing to pay the price." In a Senate hearing room, North Carolina's Senator Sam Ervin held up a stack of civil rights bills that ran to 1,212 pages...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-7 p.m.). Now that Cassius Clay is no longer recognized as heavyweight champion of the world, the rest of the boys are slugging it out in an "elimination tournament" to find a new champ. On this card: Leotis Martin (ninth-ranked) v. Jimmy Ellis (ranked eighth), and Ernie Terrell (fourth-ranked) v. Thad Spencer (fifth-ranked). Live from Houston's Astrodome...
...this flat-footed travelogue of Gangland, 1929, Capone is champion of bootlegging, extortion and all other racket sports. The simple art of murder has placed him at the top alone-until George ("Bugs") Moran begins muscling in on Chicago's North Side. "I want that son of a bitch hit!" rages Al, and assigns exterminators to get rid of the Bugs in his operation. On Feb. 14, a bunch of thugs dressed as cops enter Moran's garage and gun down everyone-except Moran, who happens to be off the premises. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre...
...tournament that begins in Houston next week. Floyd Patterson, Ernie Terrell and six other so-called contenders can go ahead and battle it out for the W.B.A.'s heavyweight title. None of them was able even to dent George Chuvalo. And none will be able to call himself champion of anything until he fights Joe Frazier...