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...opponents of ERA would restrain their hysterical fear of coed toilets and homosexual marriages long enough to read the 52 simple words of the proposed amendment, they would probably be intensely embarrassed at having been duped by the Anita Bryants and Phyllis Schlaflys and their phantom issues...
TIME blames the defeat of ERA in Florida on what it calls "the phantom issues, not the realities...
...phantom issues are mostly conjured up by the pro-ERA press. A good example is the new phantom issue manufactured by TIME, namely, that my "Stop ERA" brigades "have descended on legislators ... wearing long formal dresses...
...heretofore unchallenged guidelines. ABC learned that the fighters' records listed in Ring were doctored to establish eligibility for booking in the King tournament. One boxer, Ike Fluellen, a Bellaire, Texas, policeman who had not fought in over a year, mysteriously found himself credited with wins in two phantom bouts held in Mexico. According to Fluellen, he was advised to switch managers in exchange for ranking and a tourney invitation. In all, the records of eleven fighters were misrepresented or falsified in the 1977 Ring ratings. Ring Editor Nat Loubet's unpersuasive defense: the magazine was dependent on unverifiable...
...Phantom Fights. The tournament first went awry during the second series of bouts at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis when Heavyweight Scott LeDoux, enraged over the judges' decision against him, charged into ABC's camera range and unleashed a barrage of kicks at Winner Johnny Boudreaux, who was being interviewed by Howard Cosell. During the melee, Cosell's hairpiece came unstuck-and so did the tournament. LeDoux later charged fix, claiming that Boudreaux was among a stable of fighters managed by King associates. Paddy Flood and Al Braverman. According to LeDoux, their pugs had a lock...