Word: champness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Manifesto Destiny. Although it seems to have blossomed suddenly, the kinetic kraze has been a long time germinating. As early as 1910, the Italian futurists wanted to "renew art by seeking the style of movement" and proclaimed a racing automobile more beautiful than the Winged Victory. Dadaist Marcel Du-champ set a bicycle wheel atop a stool in 1913 and called it Mobile. The Russian constructivists Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner issued a manifesto in 1920 proclaiming their freedom "from the 1,000-year-old error of art, originating in Egypt, that only static rhythms can be its elements...
...taken the count on two Army aptitude tests, the U.S. declared that the champion just wasn't bright enough to fight. Now Colonel Everette Stephenson, director of Selective Service in Kentucky, will "more than likely" summon Clay for another round of brain crushers. Meantime the champ won another kind of split decision. He got a Miami divorce from his wife Sonji because her slacks were too tight and her makeup too much for his Muslim eye, but was ordered to pay $1,200 a month in alimony for ten years and $22,500 in lawyers' fees...
...only event the Crimson lost to the Eagles besides the shot came in the mile, one of the best battles ever fought in the Cage. B.C.'s Bill Norris is the IC4A steeplechase champ. Everyone knew he was strong and he has a kick. But no one expected him to beat strong Jim Baker in the mile...
...Indian Champ...
...fighter of the year," voted the Boxing Writers' Association. Of course. That's just what Cassius Clay, 23, had been telling the Chicago cops that very afternoon. "I'm the champ!" snarled the Lip when a couple of plainclothesmen stopped the 1962 Cadillac in which he was being chauffeured around the South Side. The car didn't have any license plates, and it was cruising slowly through a high-theft district-which attracted the cops' attention. Cassius-Muhammed Ali thought it was a clear case of lèse majesté, pointing to his Black...