Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Willie Pastrano, 28: a sixth-round TKO over Gregorio Peralta, in a light-heavyweight (175 Ibs.) championship bout at New Orleans. Stablemate of Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay (both are trained by Miami's Angelo Dundee), Pastrano had been beaten decisively by the Argentine challenger in a nontitle bout last September. This time, Wily Willie opened a bloody gash over Peralta's left eye, mercilessly pounded away at the wound until the ring doctor stopped the fight. "This was the big apple," said Pastrano, who collected an estimated $60,000 for the victory-biggest purse of his 13-year...
...Ford was to get the Mustang going. The project started quietly in January 1961 when Don Frey, a bright young engineer whom Iacocca had made his product planning manager, asked the advance styling department to draw up designs for a little sports car. When it produced a trim clay model of a little two-seater that looked like a rocket, Iacocca invited Grand Prix Driver Dan Gurney and other racing buffs in to give their opinions. Recalls Iacocca: "All the buffs said, 'What a car! It'll be the greatest car ever built.' But when I looked...
Construction got underway once again just before spring vacation, with a Boston firm heading the operation this time. Builders now expect the three clay courts to be in shape...
...Clay Courts Crowded...
...meantime, a fairly sizable traffic jam has developed on the six remaining clay courts, the only ones available to undergraduates at Harvard. Priority on the courts is given to the top ten varsity players and the top eight freshmen; after that it's an open scramble among varsity and freshmen squad members with the losers being shunted off to the Soldiers Field hard courts...