Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHARLES G. HOUGHTON III: First freshman heavyweight crew; third varsity crew; Lowell House hockey; Hasty Pudding, president; Spee Club...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National "500" Stock Car championship, Charlotte, N.C.; the World Lumberjack championships, Hayward, Wis.; and a preview of the Nov. 14 Clay-Williams heavyweight championship fight in Houston...
...years, Williams won seven fights, lost only one, developed a thunderous right-hand punch to go with a devastating left hook. Finally, in November 1964, the Big Cat got a real chance: he signed to fight Ernie Terrell for the World Boxing Association's version of the heavyweight title. Benbow gave Williams a crisp new $100 bill and told him to celebrate...
...days in jail) later and 58 lbs. lighter, he went to work on Benbow's 2,600-acre cattle ranch in Yoakum, Texas, tossing 80-lb. hay bales to rebuild his atrophied muscles. Finally, last June, Williams scored a third-round TKO over Tod Herring, the tenth-ranked heavyweight contender, thereby won a shot at Champion Clay...
...Webster's was last updated five years ago; other dictionaries go as far back, unrevised though reissued, to 1913. For a third, Random House has dropped the word count of big dictionaries to 260,000 from an average of 400,000. Thus it may qualify as the first heavyweight dictionary truly designed for ordinary definition seekers. And beyond that, it is the first dictionary that has had Bennett Cerf, board chairman of Random House and senior constellation of the longtime TV show What's My Line, promoting it all across the country...