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...Heavyweight Championship of the World. It is as big as Primo Camera was big, as simple and, sometimes, as sad. But invariably special and occasionally alluring. Jack Johnson. Jack Dempsey. Joe Louis. Rocky Marciano. Muhammad Ali. Since caves, men have been awed by the enormous stature accompanying this title and attracted to its myth. Which is why in Las Vegas this week a $50,000 casino credit line is helpful in securing a reservation at Caesars Palace. The beautiful people are descending with their beautiful money, and so are the fight mob, the press corps and the crapshooters, all drawn...
...Holmes is a boxer. In the opinion of Ray Arcel, 82, the dappled sage in Holmes' corner, "there hasn't been a real puncher since Jersey Joe Walcott, who could hit you on top of the head and knock you out." The heavyweight champions Arcel is ignoring include Rocky Marciano, Ingemar Johansson, Sonny Listen, Joe Frazier and George Foreman. Of recent challengers, Earnie Shavers possessed the closest thing to the big bat. Holmes whipped Shavers twice...
...University investigation of the incident will continue, Marciano said, but he added that "whether anyone knows exactly what happened is out of my hands...
Although Harvard officials have refused to comment further on the incident, Frank A. Marciano, B&G main-area superintendent, said Geribo's account "is consistent with the story" he has heard from other workers...
...Marciano declined to elaborate beyond saying that the leak resulted from a "mechanical failure of some sort...