Word: clay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regional center in Chicago, Professor Hans J. Morgenthau of the University of Chicago and Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) will talk about the Vietnam war to colleges in the Midwest and West...
...Cassius Clay is sincere. There is no doubt about that. He reportedly could have entered a Reserve unit, as pro football and baseball players do, and escaped the Army the respectable way. But he stayed to fight and now he isn't the champion any longer...
Lipsyte wrote in his extensive piece in the Times Sunday that the men who run boxing wanted to see Clay refuse to serve. "The discrimination was purely economic," he writes. "Clay was too good to make money with any longer." This just could be the reason for the WBA's hasty action...
...think that a heavily-promoted elimination tournament to choose the new champion will make loads of money for them are mistaken. Clay has clobbered four of the eight and the others are lunchmeat. The public wants a winner, not "some dodo or junior champion," as Clay puts...
Boxing is not really big business anymore. In 1965 bouts grossed less than nine million dollars, and most of that on eight title fights. And boxing without Clay will suffer. Those three years when Clay was on top of the heap, when he defended his crown nine times against everyone he could find, those years will be the last great years for boxing. Perhaps the greatest