Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lacking this latest in weaponry, must defend his holdings with that most ancient and honorable of movie armaments, the custard pie. He also recruits Bugsy to furnish a little brawn and some badly needed brains. Bugsy, however, is frequently absent from duty, since he has taken to managing a heavyweight prizefighter named Leroy (Paul Murphy). Bugsy has high hopes that his boy's fistic skills will help raise a stake to take Blousey to Tinseltown...
Some Americans felt more patriotic such as four gold medal swimmer John Naber ("I won by myself but for the United States") and heavyweight boxer John Tate, who draped a jacket over his imposing 228 pound frame which said, "Big Daddy Tate loves America." But they were not attributing their successes to the nation or President Ford either...
...reflects a widespread conviction that Uganda's President Idi Amin Dada is the most grotesque national leader in power anywhere today. His credentials as bully and buffoon go back well before Entebbe. The nonstop reign of terror that the massive (6 ft. 4 in., 280 Ibs.) former Ugandan heavyweight boxing champion and army sergeant major has unleashed since he seized power more than five years ago is thought to have cost the lives of at least 50,000 and perhaps as many as 200,000 Ugandans. Survivors of Amin's jails tell horror stories of prisoners sledgehammered...
...Heavyweight Champ Muhammad AM says he is slowing up at 33, but he is still fast enough to suit one admirer, Photographer-Actress Candice Bergen. After snapping pix at ringside as Ali battered English Boxer Richard Dunn in Munich, Candy rhapsodized: "He's so breathtakingly beautiful, absolutely dazzling. He's just like a mirrored ball. You can't keep track of him while he's dancing around in front of you." Before Ali's victory, Candice won, with the help of NBC, a bout of her own-against German tradition forbidding women a ringside seat...
...freshman heavyweight crew will join Harvard's varsity boats and the Mather House eight in the annual transoceanic odyssey to the Henley regatta later this month...