Word: muhammad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Super Fight The Vegas odds for next week's "Super Fight" are 6-5, bettors' choice. Muhammad AH (né Cassius Clay) says that he is going to put Rocky Marciano away in the fifth round. Ring Magazine Editor Nat Fleischer likes the Rock. Ali v. Marciano? Didn't Rocky die last year in a plane crash? Well, yes -but not before he had finished filming a simulated fight with Ali. The fight between boxing's only two undefeated heavyweight champs will be shown for the first and supposedly the only time...
...This time, to improve on the old radio show, Woroner paid the flesh-and-blood boxers to act the bout out before cameras. Marciano, who had been retired for 14 years, trained off 53 Ibs. and was fitted with a toupee. He and Muhammad Ali pounded away for three days, faking every contingency that could occur in a fight. Then the film editor cut and spliced the footage to match the computer script. Some sequences were still missing, and the boxers were brought back for two more days of shooting...
...Discrimination. The result is a feeling of schizophrenia. "Our nation, the Arab people, is opposed to our state, Israel," says Muhammad Hubeishi, a member of Acre's city council. "We can and ought to be like the Jews of America, who are loyal to their state without being disloyal to their people." More Israeli Arabs might heed that advice but for a feeling that the government does not do enough for them...