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When the bell rang for the 14th round, Leonard came out of his corner like a shot, racing over to tag Hearns with a huge left hook before the Hit Man could step out of his path. After 1 min. 45 sec. of blows that Hearns was powerless to return, Referee Pearl stopped the fight. Hearns, who had been ahead on points with all three judges at that moment, looked on incredulously. "I thought I was in pretty much control," he protested later. Said Angelo Dundee, Leonard's manager: "Tommy Hearns was out of it. He didn...
Concern about the deficit, interest rates and the slumping stock market was enough to persuade Reagan last week to try new versions on some parts of his economic program. During a 75-min. meeting on his first morning in the Oval Office after the Labor Day weekend, Budget Director David Stockman told the President that broad new cuts in federal spending would have to be made soon if Reagan were to have any chance of fulfilling his promise to erase
...this?" Just two days after Ovett exacted his revenge, Coe returned to the track, this time in Brussels. With his familiar Zurich "rabbit," American Tom Byers, setting the pace, Coe took more than a full second off Ovett's newborn mark, cutting through the balmy night in 3 min. 47.33 sec. As he had done in Zurich, Coe unleashed a terrific closing kick, taking the lead with some 500 meters (547 yds.) left. When it was over, Coe paid tribute to his obliging pacesetter. Said he: "I credit much of my success tonight to Byers...
Though he coyly insisted that Ovett's new mark had "nothing to do" with his effort, Coe had announced before the race that he hoped to finish in a record 3 min. 47.5 sec. And earlier in the day he had huddled with Byers to discuss strategy. As for Ovett, Coe said: "I'm very sorry he wasn't here tonight. The race certainly would have been faster with...
...remarkable job of avoiding head-to-head confrontations while assaulting the record books by themselves. The origin of their mutual dislike is obscure, but its effect on the sport is not. New records for the mile were a rarity in the years after Roger Bannister broke the 4 min. barrier in 1954. American Jim Ryun's 1967 record of 3 min. 51.1 sec., for example, endured for eight years. This year Coe and Ovett have batted the record back and forth like a Ping-Pong ball. In a mere ten days, they have swapped the record three times...