Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Phantom Fights. The tournament first went awry during the second series of bouts at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis when Heavyweight Scott LeDoux, enraged over the judges' decision against him, charged into ABC's camera range and unleashed a barrage of kicks at Winner Johnny Boudreaux, who was being interviewed by Howard Cosell. During the melee, Cosell's hairpiece came unstuck-and so did the tournament. LeDoux later charged fix, claiming that Boudreaux was among a stable of fighters managed by King associates. Paddy Flood and Al Braverman. According to LeDoux, their pugs had a lock...
Buffett's seagoing impulses were bred in Mobile, where his father was a naval architect at a local shipyard. His grandfather, to whom Buffett dedicated an album, was a retired ship captain who first sailed aboard a whaler at the age of 14. Buffett himself left home at 18, bounced through a series of Southern colleges and took guitar lessons. He began touring the Southern honky-tonk circuit and recorded his first album in Nashville. Says he: "It was a terrible record...
...Harvard armada had a pleasant vacation, edging the Naval Academy on Easter Sunday to capture the prestigious Owen Trophy for the third time in the last four years. Senior Tom Reps sailed home with low-point honors as the meet's top skipper, as he and classmate Terry Neff bested the rest of the 12-team field in the whitecaps off West Point...
...Buenos Aires' huge state electricity company from 35 to 42 hours and cut some fringe benefits, workers responded with a crippling go-slow action-poetically known as tra-bajoa tristeza (work with sadness). "The trouble with this country is that people have never gone hungry," grouses an angry naval officer. "They don't know what it is to work for a day's wages...
...Russian naval authorities have formed a joint committee aimed at trying to control the chicken game, but it remains a hazard of the sea. Navy officials, who released pictures of the Voge incident last week to publicize the continuing gamesmanship in the Med, reckon that the Soviet skipper did not mean to hit the Voge but simply miscalculated. Said one officer: "He just goofed, that...