Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heavyweight Jim Phills wasted no time establishing himself as a force to be reckoned with. The former Canadian Junior champion chased his first man right off the mat with a pin at the 42-second mark. Power bowed to finesse in the next round when Phills notched another win, taking less than five minutes to pound his competitor with his array of upper body moves. His next match pitted him against Trenton State's 300-pound heavyweight but Phills used his skills wisely and cruised by another freshman stalwart, 16-8. Andy McNerney battled his way to the second...
...Phills, a two-time Canadian Junior National Champion in the heavyweight division, has arrived on the scene to fill the gap left by the graduation of Craig Beling. Phills, who prefers upper body moves, has already shown himself a force to be reckoned with. He used a variety of throws and tosses to earn a third-place finish at the Colgate open, a preseason competition held earlier this month...
...Freshman Heavyweight Crew...
...Shah passed the word that he was willing to leave the U.S., leading Egyptian President Anwar Sadat ?who had denounced the seizure of the hostages as "a disgrace to Islam"?to offer to send his private jet to fly the ailing monarch to Cairo. Retired Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali announced he would be willing to exchange himself for the prisoners. Said Ali: "I'm a Muslim, and I am known and loved in Iran." Intrigued, State Department officials suggested that Ali try out his offer on the Iranian embassy in Washington. Pope John Paul II dispatched a personal...
...that Cleveland last year became the first major U.S. city since the 1930s to default on debt repayments. Cold-shouldered by the Cleveland Democratic organization and almost beaten in a recall election last year, Kucinich fo cused his campaign for re-election on Cleveland's blacks; he persuaded Heavyweight Champion Larry Holmes and former Mayor Carl Stokes to endorse him on TV. The strategy did not work: Kucinich lost to Republican George Voinovich, Ohio's Lieutenant Governor, who played down his party affiliation and promised "a new spirit of cooperation" among businessmen, labor, and civic and neighborhood groups...