Word: cooperating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everyone must know by now that Joe Frazier decked Muhammad Ali in the 15th round of their championship fight Monday. That's what all the headlines say, and it's the one picture every paper seems to be using. But so what? Sonny Banks and Henry Cooper each dropped Ali to the canvas once before, and they're both washed...
With the rank of lieutenant colonel, Cooper has now retired from the Air Force and is setting up an Institute for Aerobics Research in a suburb of Dallas. On an 8½-acre site, he will have half-mile and one-mile tracks and an Olympic-size swimming pool. Not yet ready to take patients, he is already swamped with applicants, many of them middle-aged men worried by the deadly statistics of heart-artery disease and premature deaths in the U.S. "I'm practicing preventive medicine," Cooper says. He believes that his measurements of heart action and oxygen...
...criteria, Cooper is not, though he travels continually and has had no vacation in two years. Somehow he manages to get in 20 minutes of running four or five times a week. His wife Mildred accompanies him at least part of the four-mile way. With aerobics adopted at scores of Y.M. and Y.W.C.A. centers, hundreds of clubs springing up, and an estimated 8,000,000 Americans trying the system, Cooper has done much to increase the U.S. consumption of oxygen on a basis that is medically and physiologically sound...
...Muhammad Ali v. Henry Cooper...
Faith is difficult to analyze. I was in England in 1966 when Cooper fought Clay. At a pub in Cambridge a drunken racist kept saying that "Cooper's the hand of God. He's the white hope. He's beautiful." Of course, he was all wrong, but I liked his reasoning. He had faith, misguided though it was, in the slow, brick-like frame of Cooper. He is the only person I've ever met who really had faith in an athlete. Sure, people have bet fortunes on one man or another, but they bet on statistics. They are people...