Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday, November 20 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). A preview of the Nov. 22 Clay-Patterson World Heavyweight Championship fight, including film clips of their last fights and interviews with the principals...
...Association, which is still sort of peeved at Cassius Clay, had told Ernie so last March. But the president of the W.B.A. is one James Deskin, who also happens to be executive secretary of the boxing commission in Las Vegas-where money talks and where Clay will fight Floyd Patterson Nov. 22. So there, before Terrell's wondering eyes at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens, advertisements urged: ORDER NOW FOR THE NEXT BIG FIGHT CASSIUS CLAY VS. FLOYD PATTERSON. TV TELECAST OF THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT. It Was enough to give anybody a complex. "People are always making...
After a sharp fight, the lower house passed the amendment by 74 votes to 23. However, in the state senate Wallace's bill bogged down in a talkathon organized by supporters of former Governor John Patterson, the leading candidate to succeed Wallace next year. When they attempted to invoke cloture, Wallace's men were shocked to find that they could rally only 18 votes, six short of the two-thirds majority needed to silence the rebels...
Died. Dan Florio, 68, one of prizefighting's best-known trainers, himself a fair-to-middling onetime bantamweight, who in 47 years on the other side of the ropes turned out a dozen world champions, among them Jersey Joe Walcott and Floyd Patterson, whom the ever hopeful Florio hoped to see gain his crown for the third time in next month's match against Cassius Clay; of complications following gall-bladder surgery; in Jamaica, Queens...
...week's end state courts moved to grant Patterson's requests for injunctions. But the Justice Department is fully prepared to take the case into the federal courts. There the last legal ditch will almost certainly be so deep that even the most intransigent Southerner will have to agree that Governor Johnson was right: there is no relief in sight...