Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard varsity heavyweight crew has fled the Charles River to begin its last week of practice before the Pan-American Rowing Championships...
Died. Primo Camera, 60, briefly heavyweight champion of the world and one of sport's more tragic figures; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Sequals, Italy, 34 years to the day after winning the title. At 6 ft. 5¾ in. and 267 Ibs., "Da Preem" was billed as a giant (though nothing special by today's pro-football standards) in 1930, when U.S. fight promoters and their underworld bosses found him fresh from lifting weights in a European circus. As a fighter he was a joke, but fixed bouts and blaring publicity led to a payday championship...
Harvard's heavyweight crew had to wait three years, but Saturday was the day. The heaviest Crimson heavyweights in history--and one of the youngest--defeated the Vesper Boat Club by two lengths to win the Pan American Trials at Orchard Beach Lagoon...
Clay had claimed that he was exempt from the draft because he was a minister of the fanatic Black Muslims. Yet in March 1966 he had proudly listed his occupation as "world's heavyweight champion," styling himself a minister of Allah only last August, six months after he had been classified 1A by his Louisville draft board. The court found the sequence more than coincidental...
...District Judge Lee Ingraham indicated that if Clay failed to reverse his conviction on appeal to higher courts, he would consider reducing sentence to something closer to the average 18 months usually given in such cases. Whatever the final sentence, it appears unlikely that Clay-still indisputably the best heavyweight in the world -will ever again be a championship contender. As he himself once noted: "I just said I was the greatest, not the smartest...