Word: liston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greek sports, plus the classics' numerous chorals to coordination, such as Pindar's Odes to victorious athletes or Theocritus' blow-by-blow description of fancy-dan Polydeucus outboxing Heavyweight Amycus, which may well be the origin of a human myth most recently disproved by Sonny Liston...
...with above average looks, charm, intelligence, effort and honesty. George Lodge has all the attributes of an outstanding Congressman or of an adequate senator. His opponent might suffice in the House. But Teddy Kennedy, thirty years old, never held a job...you know the story...is taking odds like Liston. The hero knows how Hector felt, even if Teddy is no Achilles. The dilemma does not intimidate Lodge, but it must confound him: "Teddy is a nice fellow, I met him in Lagos. I'd be inclined to vote for him for District Attorney, but senator...
...worst mismatch since the Liston-Patterson fight." cried an exultant Republican. Many California Democrats sadly assented. Lured reluctantly into a statewide TV debate with Republican Richard Nixon. California's Democratic Governor Pat Brown discovered last week that in a head-on clash...
Call Me Mister. Just before the fight, sentiment for Patterson had run so high that a poll of boxing writers turned up 51 experts who thought Patterson, at 189 lbs., would win. Only 32 favored the 214-lb. Liston, realistically noting his obvious advantage in size, reach and strength. He had won 33 of 34 fights, 23 of them by knockouts; no one had ever knocked him down...
...fight, he drove home to Scarsdale, N.Y., to await his $1,185,253 share of the $2,183,750 take. In the dressing room, newsmen pressed in on the new champion, himself $282,015 richer for his brief night's work. "Wait a minute. Wait a minute," hollered Liston's pressagent to the yelling mob. "This here is the heavyweight champion of the world. This is Mr. Liston. Let's treat him as you would the President of the United States...