Word: nino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans know of George Washington Carver, Ralph Bunche, Jackie Robinson and Senator Edward Brooke. The names of Pedro Nino, Nino Estevanico, Matthew Henson and Dr. Charles Drew are less likely to ring a bell. Yet these men too had an important part in the making of America, and as a congressional hearing in Manhattan pointed up last week, many legitimate Negro heroes have been overlooked by whites and Negroes alike...
...gents and long-gowned ladies crowded into the $100 ringside seats, and a total of 18,096 fans paid $658,503, the biggest indoor gate in history, to see the kind of fight card that is all too rare: a doubleheader that matched 1) Italy's slick-boxing Nino Benvenuti, 29, against Slugger Emile Griffith, 30, for the world middleweight title, and 2) Philadelphia's Joe Frazier, 24, unbeaten in 19 pro fights, against Michigan's Buster Mathis, 23, winner of 23 in a row, for the heavyweight championship of New York, Maine, Massachusetts and Illinois...
...confrontation was their third in less than a year. In the first, the unheralded Italian challenger astonished experts by easily outpointing Griffith for the title; in the second, last August, Emile won back the crown with his swarming attack. Now, once again, science and strategy proved superior to strength. Nino's flicking jab kept Emile out of hooking range; a short right followed by a lightning left cross dropped Griffith for a count of six in the ninth round; and the judges' vote was unanimous for Benvenuti, who left the ring wreathed with a smile and wrapped...
...Nino Benvenuti held off a rallying Emile Griffith to regain the world middleweight boxing championship last night in the first fight in new Madison Square Garden...
Promises, promises. The 20,000 fans who plunked $200,000 into the till at New York's Shea Stadium hardly got the battle they expected. To be sure, Griffith did bloody Nino's nose-by rubbing it with the laces of his gloves. He also speared Benvenuti in the ribs with his shoulders, butted him on the chin and belted him in the kidneys; Nino, who fights without a mouthpiece, retaliated by biting Emile's neck. But the only knockdown came in the 14th round, when Benvenuti collided with Griffith in mid-ring and fell...