Word: patterson
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...Floyd Patterson was there in Ali's body, as Muthammad played peekaboo with Holmes in the early going. Kenny Norton was there when Ali would hold his arms horizontally across his face and lean back to avoid Holmes's blows. Even Joe Frazier entered Ali when, for a very strange few minutes, Muhammad bent at the waist and bobbed and weaved as if he were a left-hook-throwing slugger...
Holmes dominated every round as Ali seemed unwilling, or unable, to throw any punches. The fight started with both men in the center of the ring, Holmes jabbing away, and Ali, gloves held high, fighting a Floyd Patterson "peek-a-boo" defense...
...guilty. The outcome incensed Mexican Americans and Mexicans alike. "Racist, frontier justice," charged Raul Grijalva, a Tucson school district board member. In Mexico, ballads lamented the fate of the aliens, and President José López Portillo criticized the outcome. "There was a pretty hot feeling," George Patterson, a civil engineer in Douglas, told TIME Correspondent Diana Coutu. "People were afraid to cross the line into Mexico because they were after the gringos...
Jack Higgins (The Eagle Has Landed) is a pseudonym of Harry Patterson (The Valhalla Exchange). Both names have become synonyms for popular thrillers, and Solo will not do the Higgins/Patterson reputation any harm. The trouble this time starts with a handsome Greek named John Mikali, who is not only a veteran of the French Foreign Legion but a world-famous pianist as well. Grieving over the death of his grandfather at the hands of the Greek junta, Mikali efficiently assassinates the colonel responsible and discovers that he has a genuine aptitude for this kind of work. He also...
DIED. William A. Patterson, 80, U.S. aviation pioneer who as president and later chairman of United Airlines for 32 years (until 1966) made it the world's largest commercial air service; after a long illness; in Glenview, Ill. With the backing of Planemaker William E. Boeing, Honolulu-born Patterson in the 1930s put together four small freight carriers to form an airline that now serves 112 U.S. and Canadian cities and boasts annual revenues of $3.4 billion. Among Patterson's innovations: hiring what he called female couriers, forerunners of today's stewardesses...