Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proliferation of the fight game is something we owe not to Ali or Howard Cosell, but to the 1976 Olympics. For it was in Montreal that men such as Sugar Ray Leonard, Howard Davis and Leon Spinks first received national attention and adoration--feelings they regenerated by turning professional...
...that Ali carried the sport of boxing from 1966 up until just a short time ago. The name Ali and the word "boxing" were synonymous in most people's eyes. And rightfully so, since the lower weights were producing no one of great charisma, such as a Sugar Ray Robinson, and the heavyweight division, outside of Joe Frazier, simply had no one to offer. Boxing was Ali and Ali was boxing...
...apolitical drifter, Ray ("Cat") Olsen, 23, held ten hostages in a Manhattan branch of New York's Bankers Trust Co. for eight hours, demanded that authorities release Patty Hearst and imprisoned members of the Symbionese Liberation Army and pay him $10 million in gold. Result: Olsen gave up and freed all hostages...
ACTWU is also trying to get people in union offices all over New York to tie up the Stevens switchboard with telephone calls. Says Campaign Director Ray Rogers: "We want to get so many phone calls going into the company that they can't make phone calls out." The union has allotted $1.5 million a year for the next ten years for the Stevens campaign, and has a pledge of full support from...
Stumping Scientists. In southwestern Minnesota, in the town of Ivanhoe, Ray Heard, a beef and dairy farmer, figures that he has lost $30,000 in the past three years and is approaching bankruptcy. This year, as his grazing land turned to dust, he spent $10,000 on hay. "We're practically giving away cattle, the prices are so low," he says. "I'm hanging on by my toenails." In just the past year, Minnesota has lost 3,000 of its 34,000 dairy farmers because of soaring feed costs and dry pastures. In South Dakota...