Word: liston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depite all the blasts it has received, tonight's heavyweight title fight between Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston should be one of the most interesting and dramatic sports events in many years...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). A preview of the Clay-Liston fight, the Miami-Nassau powerboat race from Miami and the Rebel 300 stock-car race from Darlington...
Come, I say next, how can you take Norman seriously? This man who declared himself a candidate for Mayor of New York, then stabbed his wife in the stomach? Who claimed credit for Kennedy's election? Who hollered drunk insults at Sonny Liston and was carried from the press conference? How can you take this man seriously? It's so unfashionable...
...small inability; it is the lack of a sense of proportion. All of his ideas seem equally good to him, all fights equally worth fighting. He is in danger, also, of becoming less a private sensibility than a public act. His very long essay on the first Liston-Patterson fight contains a detailed description of how he had gone to pieces that weekend; hung over and distracted at a press conference after the fight, he shouted insults at Liston, got himself carried bodily from the room...
Heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay would spend three weeks in May training, at Harvard if Bob Nilon, copromoter of the coming Liston-Clay fight, could...