Word: pattersons
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...concur. Though ten years older than Tyson, he has managed to register three fewer professional bouts -- 31 to 34 -- and only four of those against heavyweights. All told, the two men share 65 victories and uneven parts of the mystical championship. While Tyson owns the various belts, Floyd Patterson says, "Spinks has the real title, my old title, the one handed down from person to person." Spinks was first to get to Holmes (whom he out-pointed twice), the acknowledged champion for seven years. Patterson forgets, though, that Holmes' branch of the title originated when Michael's older brother Leon...
...Amato, the manager who stood up to the fight mob in the '50s, who defied the murderous Frankie Carbo and helped break the monopolist Jim Norris, died in 1985 at 77 and left Tyson in his will. "More than me or Patterson," says D'Amato's other old champion, the light-heavyweight Jose Torres, "Tyson is a clone of Cus's dream. Cus changed both of us, but he made Mike from scratch." In Brooklyn, Tyson had drawn the absent father and saintly mother, the standard neighborhood issue. "You fought to keep what you took," he says, "not what...
...Crimson varsity lightweight crew on Sunday will be bowman John Velyvis, Tom Patterson, John Leete, Andy Hoyt, Captain Jim Himes, Sam Shuffler, Eric Davis, stroke Michael Horvath, and Coyne...
USDA officials say that Roth's work was instrumental in helping them decide how to approach the growing cockroach infestation problem in Florida. "[The Asian cockroach] has a present potential to be a pest problem, so [Roth's] work is very significant in defining the pest problem," says Richard Patterson, research leader at the USDA's division on insects affecting man and animals...
Roth, who received his Ph.D. in insect physiology in 1946, is the specialist to whom biologists turn most frequently for information on cockroaches. "He's probably the foremost cockroach taxonomist. He has a world-renowned reputation. He's a very brilliant and helpful individual," Patterson says...