Word: frazier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First adopted in the U.S. by the city of Los Angeles in 1903, the recall has been used to topple two mayors there and to unseat city officers elsewhere. Only North Dakota has ever ousted a Governor-Lynn Joseph Frazier, in 1921, because of a bank scandal. The same electorate sent him to the U.S. Senate the very next year...
Philadelphia's Joe Frazier, 24, will never float like a butterfly or sting like a bee. He does not even practice poetastry or Islam. Though he is no Muhammad Ali, Joltin' Joe is still the second-best heavyweight in the world, and there is excitement in his artless approach to his trade. Utterly lacking in fistic science, Frazier is a slugger in the savage style of Rocky Marciano. "I punch and get punched," says Joe. "He lays it on me, and I lay it on him. That's what fightin' is all about...
...also about money. Frazier, a onetime slaughterhouse laborer who once earned $125 a week, picked up $120,000 in a mere six minutes last week, when he defended his five-state (New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maine) version of the heavyweight title against Mexico's Manuel Ramos, 24, at Madison Square Garden. A 4-to-l underdog in the betting, the Mexican shocked everybody-especially Frazier-by unloading a first-round right that buckled Joe's knees and sent him reeling backward into the ropes. Frazier shook his head to clear the cobwebs ("It's the hardest...
...fists, Joe decked the Mexican twice, closed his right eye, and raised egg-size lumps on his forehead. Barely saved by the bell at the end of the second round, Ramos wearily waved his arm in a gesture of surrender, and the referee stopped the fight. For undefeated Joe Frazier, it was Victory No. 21 and Knockout...
...Frazier comes down...