Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opponent had been training for months, but under very different circumstances. In a shabby, shut-down Fairfield County, Conn, nightclub, with a ring set up on the dance floor and punching bags slung over the sagging bandstand. Floyd Patterson talked broodingly to the only reporter (from TIME) who had come to watch him work...
...Patterson is sleepy-eyed, smooth-muscled and filled with the melancholy of defeat. Over and over, he relives in his mind the third round of his fight in Yankee Stadium last June 26, when a series of Johansson right-hands made him the ex-champ. "I don't remember going out." says Patterson. "When I heard the referee say 'neutral corner,' I thought I'd knocked Ingemar out. Then I got up and started to talk and I had this pain in the back of my head and I'd have laid odds that...
...When You Take a fall . . ." Patterson's defeat embittered him. "When I was champion," he recalls, "everybody was patting you on the shoulder, telling you this and that all the time until you thought, 'Holy mackerel, these people really like me.' Then, when you take a fall, you can see who your real friends are." After the Johansson fight, Patterson shut himself off from his friends and from the press for weeks. Then, last September, he rented the La Ronda nightclub in Newtown, Conn, and started training again. He has been at it ever since...
Nonsense Talk. At first, Secretary of State Christian Herter offered Castro a diplomatic out for his undiplomatic language, laid the outburst to "emotional strain" over the disaster. But when his words only increased the din of epithets, even Herter's patience was tried. He summoned Enrique Patterson, Cuba's chargé d'affaires, to the State Department and read him one of the strongest protests the U.S. has issued in recent years...
Said Herter: "The U.S. finds itself increasingly obliged to question the good faith of Your Excellency's government with respect to a desire for improved relations." Cuba's nonsensical answer, delivered by Foreign Minister Raúl Roa: The U.S. Secretary of State had personally insulted Diplomat Patterson. "We demand that whenever the United States Government addresses itself to representatives of the revolutionary government, it do so with absolute respect for their official status pursuant to accepted diplomatic standards...