Word: ellision
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Ellis looked beautiful as he bounded into the ring resplendent in a gold satin robe with sparkling lapels. He pranced. He danced. And, while 18,079 fight fans in Madison Square Garden roared in anticipation, he tauntingly aimed a flurry of punches at Joe Frazier standing across the ring...
Prefight speculation had it that Ellis, the fast and classy stylist, might be able to outmaneuver Frazier, the brawling club fighter. Circling and backpedaling, Ellis did score with enough combinations to win the first round. Yet, by the third round, it was apparent that he needed something besides style. Grinning...
Free, he meant, of the controversy about who is the real world champion. Before the fight, Ellis was recognized as the titleholder by the World Boxing Association, while Frazier ruled in six U.S. states. The conflict produced such absurdities as two sets of posters for the fight, one giving Ellis...
George E. Christodoulo '71 of Leverett House said his House committee would probably be disinclined to organize another election. Stanley G. Ellis. '71 of Dudley said they had conducted their election "by the only way we know how in Dudley House." All agreed Dudley was a special case and that...