Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Terrell carved a few more knots on Chuvalo's gnarled face in a lopsided contest last year. The Canadian champion has lost two of his last three bouts and 11 of 47 over...
Motherhood, God, Americanism, and George Chuvalo, the Brian London of the Western Hemisphere, will try to wrest the heavyweight boxing title from world champion Muhammed Ali in Toronto tonight. Las Vegas bookmakers rate Ali the eight-to-one favorite...
...challenger should go off at 80-to-1, but even the gambling establishment has a trace of patriotism. Chuvalo is a bum, and won the title shot only after World Boxing Association champion Ernie Terrell backed out of his bout with All three weeks...
...best heavyweight fighter since Joe Louis, but the world he is champion of doesn't seem to care much about his boxing skills. The sporting public took notice only when the champion commented after his re-classification by the Army that he didn't "have no personal quarrel with them Viet Congs...
...Merrick intends to give theatergoers plenty to think about: 1) a new play by Peter Weiss (Marat/Sade); 2) a musical based on Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, written and directed by Abe Burrows; 3) a musical based on The Fourposter starring Mary Martin and directed by Gower Champion; 4) a new comedy by Bill Manhoff (The Owl and the Pussycat): 5) a new play by Brian Friel (Philadelphia, Here I Come!); 6) Hugh Wheeler's dramatization of the Shirley Jackson novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle; 7) a play by Cartoonist Mell Lazarus: 8) an Italian...