Word: championship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understand the one that preceded it or the one that follows it." One thing, though; Benvenuti can put his fist where somebody else's mouth is. Last week in Manhattan, he outboxed, outslugged and outclassed a heavily favored (at 13-5) Emile Griffith to win the middleweight championship of the world...
Benvenuti had size going for him: at 5 ft. 11 in. and 159 lbs., he was 3½ in. taller and 5½ lbs. heavier than Griffith. He had solid credentials: an Olympic welterweight championship in 1960, only one loss in 192 amateur and professional bouts. And he also had the crowd. Madison Square Garden was awash with Italian flags and posters pleading DAGLIELA ALLA PANZZA! (Freely: Paste him in the belly!) But Griffith, 29, was the tough ex-street fighter from the Virgin Islands who had killed Benny Paret in the ring, won the welterweight championship three times before...
...chic people have begun to flock into two new ocean-view luxury hotels in Praia da Rocha and Portimào. The beaches and water are superb, the prices are reasonable, and there is a new 18-hole golf course, which will host this year's European Ladies championship. Another "find" this year will be the island of Madeira, 535 miles southwest of Lisbon; it has always had splendid accommodations, but its new airport opened 18 months ago, and the new accessibility guarantees new popularity. Portugal's biggest draw of the season will be the tiny village...
...country last year, but troubles at goalie and attack have turned them into a less formidable squad this season. They do have two 1966 all-Americans at midfield in co-captains George Armiger and Howie Zeskind, and the defense boasts three lettermen from last spring's New England championship outfit...
...years in the N.B.A., the 76ers' 7-ft. 1 1/16-in. center has rewritten the record book: there are more than 1,000 entries next to his name, and he has been voted the league's Most Valuable Player three times. But he has never played on a championship team. Last week he took out his frustration on the Celtics, and particularly on his longtime nemesis, Boston's 6-ft. 10-in. center and coach, Bill Russell. In a fierce personal contest that one sportswriter described as "the flashiest high-altitude duel since Eddie Rickenbacker v. Baron...