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Matthews came to Boston as a professional boxer in 1955. An All-Navy champion feather-weight, he fought professionally in the area for six years before working for Harvard. Matthews started boxing after watching a few matches when he was stationed in Guam. "I didn't think the fighters were that good. I thought I could do better, so I started training," he says. Matthews left Kansas because he had an uncle who was an ex-boxer here in Boston, but he wasn't able to make the money he wanted as a professional...
More than taking courses, working, and even boxing, Matthews loves to travel. "If I had the money I'd spend the rest of my life traveling around the world meeting people," he says. As an amateur boxer in the Navy, he boxed from Guam to Japan fighting American, Japanese and Korean service men. Besides the All-Navy featherweight title, this tour gave Matthews has a special interest in the Far East, particularly China and Japan. He plans to take a trip to China in 1988. Matthews has gathered a list of more than 30 people to contact in China, most...
...residents of the United Nations' U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Mariana islanders were long envious of their neighbors and fellow Chamorros to the south on Guam, who have been U.S. citizens since 1950. Although the Marianas voted overwhelmingly for commonwealth status in 1975, it took the U.N. until last May to approve the change, which President Reagan proclaimed Nov. 3. Other former members of the U.S. Trust Territory -- the Palau group, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia (Yap Island group, Kusaie, the Truk Islands and Ponape) -- opted for independence...
...members of their entourage abandoned their palace in Manila and Imelda's 3,000 pairs of shoes last February, they braced for some cutbacks in their conspicuous consumption. But, in fact, in one month the exiled Marcos & Co. ran up personal expenses of $207,000 on U.S. bases in Guam and Hawaii, says a House Armed Services subcommittee. That bought, among other items, $2,552 worth of shoes, which were not for Imelda but for others in the party. Other tabs: $19,971 for long-distance calls, $18,952 for clothing (including 3,500 for men's socks, belts, underwear...
That's what I have the most fun doing, really--talking about Guam or water polo...