Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well, I do know, of course, and so does everybody else. Clay (or Muhammed Ali, if you wish) is on the threshhold of becoming the greatest heavyweight in the history of the ring. Floyd Patterson, Clay's opponent in Las Vegas tonight, will open the door just another crack. That's all; nothing more, nothing less...
...absolutely certain that Clay will win this one. As Cassius says, "I got superior height, weight, balance, reach, speed, strength, and youth." In fact, the champion is so embarrassed about Patterson's total incompetence that, for once, he doesn't want to talk about...
...Clay's other opponents have been subjected to frothing mouthfuls of abuse. Patterson got the same treatment at first: "He couldn't out-punch my ninety-year-old grandmother," Clay used to say about the former champion. "He is the only fighter I know with a one-hundred carat crystal...
...Patterson has not fought a good fight since the second bout with Ingemar Johansson. The fast, instinctive combinations that buried the Hammer of Thor are gone. Floyd went into both Liston bouts with a rigid pre-fight strategy -- indicative of a nature that has no place in the ring...
Noting that fast-healing humans also had a high zinc content in their bodies, Air Force doctors began trying zinc on patients at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. They worked with men suffering from relatively common and painful pilonidal sinuses (which appear near the base of the spine), the removal of which leaves a cavernous wound. Six .men who had moderately large excisions and got only standard treatment took an average of 62 days for healing. Seven, with wound cavities averaging almost three times as large, healed in only 45 days. The only difference in treatment was that...