Word: knockout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philadelphia's Convention Hall, red-booted Albert Westphal, a flabby (5 ft. 7 in.. 195 lbs.), obscure German who looked like a lady wrestler, was matched off against Sonny Listen, whose career, besides 22 knockouts, included 19 known arrests, two convictions (armed robbery, assaulting a police officer), and a five-year term at the Missouri State Penitentiary. At 1 min. 58 sec. of the first round, Westphal, who had been backpedaling furiously, stood still long enough for Liston to hit him with a pawring left and a ponderous right. Then he pitched forward on his face for Listen...
Ratterman campaigned on a promise to clean out Newport-and the city's vice lords set out to double-team him. They framed him by giving him knockout drops, then arranging to have him arrested in bed with a stripper named April Flowers. The courts cleared Ratterman, who is the father of eight children, and a grand jury later indicted Newport's Police Chief Upshere White on a charge of having conspired to railroad Ratterman...
Wednesday Night Fights (ABC, 10 p.m. to conclusion).* World Junior Lightweight Champion Flash Elorde, who gained his 130-lb. title last March with a seventhround knockout of Harold Gomes, puts it back on the line against Gomes in a scheduled 15-rounder at San Francisco...
Wednesday Night Fights (ABC, 10 p.m. to conclusion).* Middleweights Henry Hank and Rudy Ellis have it out in Chicago. In their previous bout in 1958, Hank handed Ellis the only knockout of his career; Hank has never been stopped...
Oregon provided the fringe on top of his rolling bandwagon. Pitted for the first time against a field of four, Kennedy registered a knockout. Favorite Son Morse waged a campaign of savage personal attack, which Kennedy ignored. The names of Hubert Humphrey, Stuart Symington and Lyndon Johnson were all listed on the ballot, though the three refused to campaign. Adlai Stevenson was an unwilling ghost candidate.† When the returns were in, Kennedy had outpointed all Democratic opponents put together: Kennedy, 135,000; Morse, 85,000; the others, a total of 44,000 votes. Unopposed in the Republican primary, Dick...