Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American public learned the answer to the question in 1965, when he defended his title against Floyd Patterson. A sporting event became a religious war between Catholic Patterson and Muslim Ali. It was also a terrible mismatch between a flagging ex-champ and a cruelly derisive young titleholder. By the time of the K.O. in the 12th round, even the most bloodthirsty fight fans were sickened by the gruesome giving and taking of pain. But there was more than that to the scene. White America had seen Watts burn with a deadly rage that summer. Now there stood a triumphant...
...since Pete Rademacher stepped into a ring with Floyd Patterson in 1957 has a heavyweight fought for the title with as little experience as Leon Spinks. Rademacher commuted to the canvas seven times that night, then left in search of an ice pack. Spinks left with the heavyweight crown and the sort of slum-to-stardom story that no savvy scriptwriter would ever dare submit to a director...
...Patterson added that there are fascist tendencies in movements toward ethnic pluralism. "Instead of saying we're all equal," he said, "eventually feelings of group superiority develop...
Martin L. Kilson, Jr., professor of Government, said yesterday he agreed with Patterson that the ethnic revival has been "detrimental to efforts to cosmopolize the American identity...
Opponents of Patterson's theories refused to comment yesterday...