Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issues." But Bayh gives his all to everyone he meets. Nobody high or low, friendly or hostile, is spared some gesture of affection-a slap on the back maybe, a poke in the ribs, a jab to the shoulder-as if Bayh were still a Golden Gloves light-heavyweight boxing champion. "If he does that once again," Robert Kennedy is reported to have grumbled, "I'll punch him in the nose." But most people like the Bayh touch...
...instead of heading into today's heavyweight bout with the possibility of becoming the top dog in the Ivy League, the Princetonians are rather facing extinction. Teams with two conference losses do not win Ivy championships...
...canvas in exhaustion. Joe Frazier stood in a fog in his corner. The fight was over, stopped by Frazier's manager, Eddie Futch, because Smokin' Joe could no longer see the punches pounding into his nearly closed eyes. Ali had successfully defended his world heavyweight boxing title against Frazier, but the long slugging battle had been as tough as any he had known...
...former Los Angeles beauty queen whom Ali's acquaintances have been referring to as the fighter's "second wife." His legal wife, however, is Belinda Ali, who last week flew to Manila to join her husband-and Veronica-on the eve of his title defense against heavyweight Joe Frazier. As a Muslim, Ali is technically entitled to four spouses, but neither the U.S. nor Belinda sees it that way. So, eleven hours after her arrival, an angry Belinda boarded a plane back to the U.S. "My wife rides around in two Rolls-Royces, two Eldorados," said Ali later...
...deciding personally minute details like the design of an invitation card to a company party, and became known as "the executioner" for his summary firings of scores of lesser executives. The latest and most notable casualty occurred in September, when Sir John got rid of another much harried heavyweight: 236-lb. Graham Dowson, 52, who had held the title of chief executive. Dowson had incurred Davis' wrath by rejecting the woman that Sir John had promoted as Dowson's fourth wife...