Word: clay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jimmie Lee Jackson was a $6-a-day Negro woodcutter who lived with his mother, his sister and his grandfather on a patch of red-clay soil outside Marion, Ala. One night last month Jackson, 26, joined a Negro demonstration in Marion. When cops began breaking it up, he and some other Negroes sought refuge in a cafe. State police went in after them. In the melee Jackson was shot in the stomach, and died eight days later...
...easy to ignore Cassius Clay. But the World Boxing Association is giving it a game try. The W.B.A. is anti-Black Muslim, anti-return-bout contracts and antinoise. It also controls what there is of boxing in 39 states (notable exceptions: California and New York). So last September it declared the heavyweight title vacant, and last week in Chicago it staged a new "world championship" fight between two harmless creatures named Ernie Terrell and Eddie Machen...
...pats too. That won him a unanimous decision that 6,587 fans booed for 15 minutes. Said Joe Louis, who spent the evening suffering in Ernie's corner: "Terrell fought like an amateur." But try telling that to Terrell, who immediately started chattering about a fight with Clay. "I'm the champion," he insisted. "The W.B.A. says so." Hooted Cassius: "Why don't they just admit that I'm the king of kings...
...contract for Clay's title-defense fight against Sonny iLston on May 25 contains an unusual clause which requires him to spend the last three weeks of his pre-fight training in Massachusetts...
...Clay used the Boston Arena Annex for his training last October, but was dissatisfied with its small seating capacity. He said he wanted a larger training site for this fight "so the people can see the heavyweight champion of the world in action...