Word: muhammad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...downright humiliating. There was poor old Jimmy Ellis training for the fight of his life and all that anyone talked about was who Muhammad Ali would meet after he polished off Jimmy What's-His-Name. Trouble was, Ellis was Ali's longtime friend and former sparring partner. They even had the same trainer. Thus the prospect of Ali meeting someone he had already sparred with for 1,000 rounds or so was about as exciting as the late, late, late show. Ellis made menacing noises and Ali tried to work up his customary public fury over...
...lost every previous round, but unlike his fights in the ring, this time only the final round counted. Thus, after a four-year legal scrap, Muhammad Ali last week won a unanimous decision on points. The Supreme Court reversed his 1967 conviction for refusing induction on the grounds that the Government had wrongly attacked the basis of his beliefs...
...Muslims, a great deal. Hence another exotic moniker for sports fans to stumble over: Kareem Abdul Jabbar, the impressive appellation by which 7-ft. 2-in. Basketball Star Lew Alcindor wishes to be known henceforth. Jabbar, a convert from Roman Catholicism, is not a Black Muslim like Boxer Muhammad Ali, but a member of Islam's orthodox Sunni sect. As for his new name, he explained to a press conference that Kareem means "noble" or "generous"; Abdul, "servant of Allah"; Jabbar, "powerful." Jabbar, who left on a three-week tour of Africa with his bride of one week, added...
What about "Muhammad Speaks...
...back from an all-expense, CIA-paid tour of Europe and sitting down at a gold-plated type-writer. I would hope that the readers would find that a bit ridiculous, but those are the extents that publications of this kind go to when the readers allow them to. Muhammad Speaks and the Panther paper are not the answer to the kind of publications we need...