Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes straight - partly about his boy hood bouts with pimples, caused by lack of sex. And at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Cassius Clay, alias Muhammad Ali, spat carefully on the floor while Eddie Fisher was singing The Star-Spangled Banner. Clay, 23, then proceeded to demolish Floyd Patterson, 30, in defense of the heavyweight championship of the world...
Challenger Patterson made it sound as if the national honor was at stake "I have nothing against Mr. Clay personally," said Floyd, "but I want to give the title back to America." That meant taking it away from the Black Muslims, and they did not want to let go of any thing. Clay's cold-eyed Muslim body guards even tried to rough up Nat Fleischer, the grand old editor of Ring magazine when he approached Clay outside the arena ("Take your hands off that man!" stammered Cassius. "He's my friend...
Kick into Orbit. Sure that an experimental scramjet plane can be produced within six years, the Air Force has established a Scramjet Technology Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton and has already begun awarding scramjet research contracts to aerospace companies...
...start of round six a lump appeared under Patterson's left eye. Towards the middle of the round, Clay landed a series of combinations to Patterson's jaw and then retreated as Floyd wobbled, sagged, and then slumped to one knee for a mandatory eight count...
...Patterson, however, refused to gve up. Literally helpless and rocking uncontrollably from side to side at least twice in each of the last five rounds, he somehow managed to stay on his feet...