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...Muhammad Ali did not take boxing with him after all. Just as Joe Louis had not after all. Just as Jack Dempsey could not after all. They left it to Mike Tyson, a primitive without stockings, who carves a hole in a towel and calls it a robe. Like boxing, he is an anachronism, a dusty old museum piece of 20, a black from Brooklyn's worst circumstances, an orphaned street robber found handcuffed to a reform-school radiator, and the youngest heavyweight champion of the world...
...Tyson's bout with Berbick, the winner of Muhammad Ali's last battle in 1981, Ali received two old newspaper friends in his hotel suite. He only faintly remembered them and vaguely introduced his fourth wife. He performed his card tricks as if they had never seen them before, and once more stuffed the disappearing handkerchief into his plastic thumb. "I'm good, I'm free," he said with an animal effort, a coughing rumble and a low growl. "I stay so busy, I'm in another world. All my boxing, it was all for this." Painstakingly, appearing unable...
...last centennial dance with Miss Liberty. Despite the bursting-in-air celebration on July 4, her actual birthday came last week. The threeday after-party party included a ceremony saluting Americans of varied ethnic backgrounds that were not all acknowledged in July. Among the 80 honorees: Joe DiMaggio, Muhammad Ali and Barbara Walters. Next day a glittering concert and dinner dance at New York City's Lincoln Center featured Charles Aznavour, Julio Iglesias, Placido Domingo and the premiere of a new cantata by Composer William Schuman. When all was conclusively said and exhaustively done, the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island...
...winners of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor announced last week were an eclectic roll call of America's ethnic heritage; among the recipients were Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Walter Cronkite and Muhammad Ali. But the list was even more varied than the award's sponsors realized. James Tamer, 74, a Michigan country-club owner honored as a Lebanese-American activist, turned out to be a convicted felon as well. Tamer served five years for a 1934 bank robbery. In 1979 federal prosecutors alleged he had operated a Las Vegas hotel casino as a front man for Vito Giacalone, a reputed...
When President Habib Bourguiba married Wassila Bent Muhammad Ben Ammar in 1962, the Tunisian press called it a "love match." Over the years, the pair had frequent clashes, after which she would depart the presidential palace for extended sulks abroad. One such absence was expected to end early this month on the occasion of Bourguiba's 83rd birthday, but Wassila, now 74, failed to turn...