Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March on Washington, which fascinated the entire College in 1962, led to the Senatorial campaign, six months later, of H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History. Hughes, running as an independent, took on Edward M. (Teddy) Kennedy '54 and George Cabot Lodge '50. The good Harvard professor had entered this heavyweight fight of names and heredity as a distinct underdog, but the haymaker that knocked Hughes out of the race completely came from neither of his opponents, but from the other side of the globe...
...seem to be a fight, threw a punch that did not look like a punch, scored a knockout that the referee did not realize was a knockout, and set a record that turned out to be no record. In the process, Cassius clearly established himself as the heavyweight champion of the world and a consummate actor-in the theater of the absurd...
...discover that Liston had managed to get on his feet. At that point, Joe grabbed Cassius' arm and hoisted it high into the air. Clay was the winner by a knockout. The official time of the K.O.: 1 min. of the first round-fastest ever in a heavyweight title fight...
...fans in the arena had not seen the knockout punch; neither had the 500,000 others watching on closed-circuit TV. "Fix! Fix! Fix!" they chanted. "Fake! Fake! Fake!" At ringside, Joe Louis conceded that Clay had landed a right, "but it wasn't no good." Snapped Canadian Heavyweight George Chuvalo: "It's a phony, a real phony." Even Cassius was confused. "I think I hit him with a left hook and a right cross," he said. "But I want to see the video tape...
Paul E. Gunderson '65, of Leverett House and Enumclaw, Wash., captain of the superhuman heavyweight crew, has received the 1965 William J. Bingham Award, Harvard's highest athletic honor...