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...piece deals with the greatest performing rhetorician in sports history, World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali. Kahn visited Ali at his training camp in the Catskills the week before the fight, and talked with him hours after he narrowly retained his title in a tenuous 15-round decision over Ken Norton. Says Kahn: The piece is a column on Ali, "the public image and the private...
Color the scene A Clockwork Orange. On the night of the Muhammad Ali-Ken Norton heavyweight fight last week, the action outside Yankee Stadium was worthy of Stanley Kubrick's chiller: gangs of youths rampaged, snatching tickets from fans, breaking into parked cars, seizing a city bus, attempting unsuccessfully to get into the stadium. An attractive woman was shoved face-first into a concrete wall outside the ballpark, and while she bleated in terror, three patrolmen watched unmoving. Pickpockets bumped profitably through the crowd lifting wallets, and young thugs from the wasteland of the South Bronx grabbed women...
...Norton, 31, the opponent, is child of the black middle class, a star in two dreadful movies and the possessor of a body that Irving Rudd, a boxing publicist, called "mythologically hewn...
...rancor separated the fighters. Ali had been guaranteed $6 million. Norton would earn $1 million. Sept. 28 was payday, but as they worked toward summits of conditioning, the world yawned. Ali is proud of his ability to sell tickets, and at the public prefight physical, he staged a vulgar, raucous demonstration...
Besides, despite the fact that Norton G. Miller, associate professor of Biology, seemed like a real nice guy and even brought in a whole bunch of mosses for the class to look at, I think I may check out Bio 140--"Algae"--or 143--"Fungi" instead. Or maybe I'll hold off altogether until next semester and take Bio 129--"Properties of Excitable Membranes...