Word: muhammad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Violence is the worst thing we can think of," Muhammad All, otherwise known as Cassius Marcellus Clay, cautioned delegates to a National Conference of Black Students in Minneapolis. "It's like a bull running into a locomotive: you can admire the bull for his courage, but he'll still end up splattered all over the track." Strange words indeed from a man who used to make his living with his fists-but Ali, undefeated but defrocked heavyweight champion, was not pulling any punches on the race question. On the contrary. "By nature, blacks and whites are enemies...
...week, Cairo had feted a group of MIG fighter pilots who claimed to have recently shot down three Israeli planes (the Israelis dryly commented that "all of our planes returned safely to base"). Now Egypt's War Minister and Commander in Chief, Lieut. General Muhammad Fawzi, visited the Suez front, liberally passing out medals and praise...
...courage). With the help of a few experts, he studied shadowy old films and yellowed newspaper clippings of fights to determine the number and kinds of punches each boxer threw. Then he reduced the field to the 16 top-rated heavyweights, from bare-knuckled John L. Sullivan to fancydancing Muhammad Ali. He fed all the information into a National Cash Register 315 computer. After proper programming, the machine was ready to spew out a blow-by-blow account of a mythical fight...
...main strength of the book is in its tying together of these white and black problems. Inserted between chapters on Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, is a section on the white race and its heroes. "What has suddenly happened is that the white race has lost its heroes. Worse, its heroes have been revealed as villains and its greatest heroes as the arch-villains." Youths "recoil in shame from the spectacle of cowboys and pioneers--their heroic forefathers whose exploits filled earlier generations with pride--galloping across a movie screen shooting down Indians like Coke bottles...
...wheedles. He stares ferretlike down his long nose, droning in a voice that sounds like a cross between a buzz saw and Bronx sneer. "Did you take a dive in the Clay fight?" he demands of Son ny Listen. Or as Muhammad Ali launches into his pitch for Muslimism, Cosell cuts in sharply: "Awright, we've been through that...