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Word: heavyweights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ring parlance, there are no holds barred, no punches pulled. Ali is honest, not only about the personalities whom he encounters on his journey to become heavyweight champion of the world, but, more significantly, about himself as well...

Author: By Andy Quigley, | Title: Winner and Still Champ | 12/3/1975 | See Source »

...interested in was teaching a nice, small, quiet seminar. I really didn't want it to become a carnival-type situation." So as soon as she got through her first class, she set off for New York City to help another bashful fighter, Heavyweight Champ Muhammad All, promote his new autobiography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 24, 1975 | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

Stone's credentials in the world of finance, Harvard, and the upper class run quite long. At Harvard he presided over the Owl Club and was captain of the heavyweight crew. He currently chairs the board of the West India Shipping Company and the General Energy Corporation...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: A More Corporate Corporation | 11/22/1975 | See Source »

...Crimson oarsmen decided this morning that if Parker continues as coach, they'd just as soon sink than swim, as they indicated in a letter to the Athletic Department. The letter demanded Parker's resignation, and since it's easier to replace one coach than the defending national champion heavyweight boat, Parker was last seen floating down the Charles in a lifeboat...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Savoir-Faire | 11/20/1975 | See Source »

Died. Georges Carpentier, 81, light-heavyweight boxing champion from 1920 to 1922, who lost on a fourth-round knockout to Heavyweight Jack Dempsey in 1921 's "Battle of the Century" in Jersey City, boxing's first million-dollar gate; of a heart attack; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 10, 1975 | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

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