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...turning point in Foreman's life came in 1965 when he joined the Job Corps. His first assignment was at a corps center in Grants Pass, Ore., where he learned carpentry ("I felt I was somebody"). Later he was sent to Pleasanton, where he started...
...Foreman's troubled youth has left a deep impression on him. In Kingston, Jamaica, the morning after he became heavyweight champion, 100 reporters gathered around Foreman. They expected to hear about future fight plans. Instead, Foreman simply said: "I'm going into the streets to talk to the kids and set them straight. Get them off the dope and all that bad stuff. Tell them they can make it, just like...
Flying Lessons. Muhammad Ali, of course, is a success story too. But Ali does not dwell on his background (the son of a Louisville sign painter, he had a more stable childhood than Foreman and finished high school). Ali lives in the present and future. For relaxation, he does anything but escape behind a locked gate. During the summer he interrupted workouts to take helicopter flying lessons. For long trips, he bought a full-size Scenicruiser bus and refitted the inside as a plush mobile home. Truckers who heard a strange voice jabbering away over the Citizen's Band...
...survive, but championship prize money will not be the same. Ali's charisma has helped a number of heavyweight opponents into the upper-income brackets. During his own career, Ali has earned more than $10 million in purses alone, not including next week's fortune. Were George Foreman fighting anyone else, the take would not be half as large...
...Mobutu Sese Seko, while both were visiting Kuwait. Mobutu proposed the idea of bringing the greatest black American fighters to their ancestral homeland for a championship match. He and Ali parted in agreement that Zaïre should make a bid to have what was then only a potential Foreman-Ali fight...