Word: johnson
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Winners and Losers. In picking the winner, President Johnson went along with many-but not all-of the original recommendations. Probably the greatest gainer was Los Angeles-based Continental Airlines, only the eleventh biggest U.S. airline. Its new runs to Samoa, Micronesia, Australia and New Zealand will make it a sizable inter national carrier. Another big gainer was TWA, which was awarded rights to fly from the U.S. to Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places. By linking its new Pacific runs with its existing transatlantic ones, which go as far as Hong Kong, TWA will become a round-the-world...
...this year's first eleven months. It failed in a bid to broaden its horizons to Pago Pago, Papeete and other South Pacific spots. Not even close connections in the White House did much for an other loser, American Airlines. Its former chairman, C. R. Smith, is Johnson's Commerce Secretary, but American's application for a Tokyo run was rejected...
...ends The Great White Hope, the current Broadway play based on the career of Boxer Jack Johnson, the first Negro heavyweight champion (1908-15). Typically, Jess Willard, the only one of several "white hopes" who was able to take the title from Johnson, is portrayed in the play as a grotesque symbol of all that was sick with the times...
...Raised on a ranch in Pottawatomie County, Kans. Willard migrated to Oklahoma, where he broke horses and ran a frontier freight-wagon service, Marveling at the way Big Jess tossed around 500-lb. bales of cotton, his friends told him that he was just the man to thrash Jack Johnson good and proper. Like many Americans, they considered it a national disgrace that Johnson, who eventually married three white women and romanced countless others, was allowed to reign as champion.* Willard who had never seen a boxing match sold his business and at 29 went into the ring. Regarded...
...Killing Rounds. The match, held at the Oriental Park Race Track in Havana on a blistering hot April afternoon, was scheduled for a man-killing 45 rounds. It lasted 26, or one hour and 44 minutes, making it the longest heavyweight championship bout in this century. Five years later, Johnson, broke and living in Paris, sold a "confession" to a magazine in which he claimed that he had thrown the fight for $50,000 and the promise of leniency from the U.S., where he was wanted for violating the Mann Act. Willard's reaction: "If Johnson throwed the fight...