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...that the draft board had improperly denied Ali's claim for exemption on grounds that he was a conscientious objector. Ali returned to the frustrating trail of a contender: a broken jaw at the hands of Ken Norton, a rematch triumph over Frazier, newly dethroned by George Foreman...
...jubilant DiNicola, who was especially impressed by Spinks's stamina. "Even at the end of the fight Spinks could still break Ali's rhythm and put him on the ropes when he wanted. Hitting Ali against the ropes usually tires out other guys like Ron Lyle and George Foreman. But Spinks pounded the heavy bag for nine rounds in training--and that's hard to do. It seems like Ali almost named his successor last night...
...cleaned off sidewalks and the city of Cambridge plowed the snow back in, and then we got a couple of citations for it," Yoffe said, adding, "It's a comedy of errors type thing." He said that when he receives the citations from his foreman, he plans to "call whoever is in charge down at the city of Cambridge and protest...
...traded in. It is the style the world got a look at in the carrot-and-stick politics of Lyndon B. Johnson. Henry Blanton is an alias for the 40-year-old cowpuncher whom Kramer selected to sit for her portrait of yet another vanishing American. Although he is foreman on a 90,000-acre Panhandle ranch, Blanton is entering his middle age with a hatful of failed promise and a headful of bourbon. "He moved." writes the author, "in a kind of deep, prideful disappointment. He longed for something to restore him -a lost myth, a hero...
...talking more like this than like thay-uht. He's not a hero, but he's a gifted survivor and a natural-born fink. In return for forgetting what he knows of an assassination attempt by a company thug on the union leader, Leroy is promoted to foreman, and he loses touch with his worker friends in La Causa as quickly as he lost his accent...