Word: muhammad
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Fortune frowned on a surprising catalogue of prominent people last week. Among the losers: Muhammad Ali, alias Cassius Clay, who lost a unanimous decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to let him go to Canada for a fight with Joe Frazier; Lady Bird Johnson, who was fined $15 by Austin, Texas, police for failing to yield the right of way; Ray Fosse, Cleveland Indians catcher, who suffered burns on his foot when a cherry bomb was thrown from the stands during a game...
...prevent any avalanche of applicants, Tarr insisted that the court's decision was not retroactive. His position will almost certainly be challenged in court. Moreover, many rejected C.O.s are now likely to reapply for exemption. The decision may also help deposed Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali, who is fighting a five-year sentence for refusing induction on the ground that he is a Black Muslim minister. One of Ali's lawyers claims that the boxer's case has a better chance before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit "now that theology has been taken...
...avoid antagonizing the state's crucial 300,000 black voters, and as of now he is slightly favored. Wallace dismisses his opponent as "Sissy Britches," but beneath his cocky exterior he has shown some signs of desperation. Wallaceites recently passed out phony photos showing Brewer greeting Black Muslims Muhammad AH and Elijah Muhammad. Last week Wallace erupted with the puzzling charge that his opponent had piled "evil abuse" on Wallace's dead wife, although Brewer has never mentioned...
What was for decades a Jewish wedding hall is now Elijah Muhammad's Mosque No. 1. Mattapan is peopled by whites too old or too poor to run, by blacks having nowhere else to go. Fear of black teen-age crime has envenomed Mattapan and Dorchester. New FOR SALE signs sprout daily on ragged lawns, and window posters bear the legend
...publications find the choice severely limited. Among predominantly black general-audience newspapers, New York's Harlem-based weekly Amsterdam News is the largest, with a circulation of 82,123. The Baltimore, Richmond and Washington, D.C., editions of the Afro-American have a combined circulation of only 97,600. Muhammad Speaks, the propaganda organ of Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslim sect, has a circulation of 400,000. The leading black magazine is the LIFE-like Ebony (circ. 1,216,626), published by John H. Johnson, who also publishes the newsweekly Jet (circ. 394,134) and the polemical journal Negro...