Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best heavyweight fighter since Joe Louis, but the world he is champion of doesn't seem to care much about his boxing skills. The sporting public took notice only when the champion commented after his re-classification by the Army that he didn't "have no personal quarrel with them Viet Congs...
...Riot! Riot!" It all started when two men-Joe Garcia, 26, a Mexican-American, and Dwayne Graves, 16, a Negro-bumped into each other outside a Watts liquor store. Between the Negro ghetto and the Mexican colony clustered in nearby East Los Angeles, there is a tradition of jealous rivalry, and tensions have been rising. Negroes, who resent the light-skinned Mexicans because they find it easier to get jobs, had stabbed several of their rivals in the previous riots. Mexicans, for their part, regard themselves as better-educated and racially superior to their Negro neighbors, whom they accuse...
...into the hundreds, a mob stormed through the twelve-block area that still bears the scars of what Watts calls "the Au gust revolution," overturning vehicles, smashing store windows, pommeling and stabbing whites. A Mexican-American truck driver, Lawrence Gomez, 30, was surrounded, beaten, and shot to death. Negro Joe Crawford, 33, for no apparent reason was killed by a sniper. Molotov cocktails started a dozen fires while looters pillaged stores. Having learned their lesson in August, when police initially pulled out in hope that the violence would die down, more than 200 cops swept through the streets in prowl...
...coach observed, "don't let you play the way you want to." And they didn't let Kentucky. From the opening jump-off between Miner David Lattin and Wildcat Thad Jaracz, they had Kentucky off balance and off the goal. Midway through the first half, when Bobby Joe Hill, 21, Texas Western's standout guard, cleanly stole the ball twice in a row at midcourt, the Wildcats went into a reel that they never quite pulled out of. With a defense that strangled Kentucky in close and on the outside, Texas Western just kept pulling away...
...best hitters are returning. Joe O'Donnell, who was third in the EIBL batting race last year with a .378 mark and Dan Hootstein, who was seventh with .355 are back. Both were first team All-EIBL picks last season, O'Donnell at first base and Hootstein in right field...