Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nomination in 1964. In conversation with "political intimates," wrote Reporter Joseph H. Miller, Ike had made it clear he would happily support any one of four men - Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton, Michigan's Governor George Romney, Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton or retired General Lucius Clay. What made the list notable was the conspicuous absence of the current front runners, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater and New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller...
...Here comes the star of the show," chortled Cassius Marcellus Clay, 21, and for once he didn't mean himself. With Brother Rudolph Valentino Clay, 20, he was escorting his paternal great-grandmother, Mrs. Betsy Greathouse ("The roots of a great champion," says Cassius), to her 99th birthday party. "It's a shame," he added, turning serious for a change. "I get all this attention for nothing, and she's never had her name in the paper...
With the fight just three weeks away, Floyd Patterson, 28, is not brimming with overconfidence at his chances of regaining the Heavyweight Boxing crown. "I will not hit the ground/ In the first round,/ How does that sound?" he asked reporters. It sounded like soft Clay, but Sonny Listen, 29, didn't mind. "I like Patterson; I really do. I don't plan to let the fight go past three rounds." Besides, what Sonny is really interested in is getting at Cassius the Brassiest after he disposes of Floyd. He has his Las Vegas training camp fitted...
...Price Is Right." Clay pranced about the ring, five fingers held high. His brother, Rudolph Valentino Clay, ran up with the brass crown; Cassius bowed his head to receive it-then thought better of the tawdry gesture and waved Rudolph off. As he left the ring, a bitter spectator swung at him. Clay ducked and grinned: "I'll take my pistol to you." In his dressing room, Cassius rubbed cold cream into his tender nose, vainly examined it in a mirror. "I've never had a bloody nose before," he said. "That left hook-I've never...
Jack Nilon, front man for Heavyweight Champion Sonny Listen, pushed his way through the swarm of admirers. "I'm ready for Liston," Clay told him, "but only if the price is right. I'll draw the crowd-not him." Nilon nodded. "I've come 3,500 miles to get you," he said. "The price will be right...