Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bathtub, hot-water plumbing, and a flush toilet-equipped with a red velvet seat cover for comfort in the early-morning chill. An airstrip was constructed; access roads from Katmandu, 160 miles away, were widened and improved. In high grass four miles from camp, workmen set up a "hunting ring," surrounded by a 5-ft. fence of white cloth and stocked with a smallish 8-ft. 8-in. tigress flushed from the jungle the day before...
...some ways, the prefight pattern was familiar. As he had twice before, U.S. Heavyweight Floyd Patterson stuck grimly to his job of clouting sparring partners in preparation for a championship bout with Sweden's Ingemar Johansson. And although Ingo was working harder than ever before in the training ring, he was still surrounded with all the lush appurtenances of life, including perennial fiancee Birgit Lundgren...
...from the Atlantic surf. But Patterson could hardly have cared less. "This is a vacation spot," he said. "But I'm not here for fun." Sixty-five miles northward, at Palm Beach's Sea Breeze motel, Challenger Johansson took his turn in an open-air, rooftop training ring, and dunked himself in a nearby, palm-girdled swimming pool. "Ah," said Ingo, "this is the perfect place...
...Message. For the first time, Playboy Johansson was all business in the training ring. He was trying to develop a left hand to complement his crashing right-but there were doubts that his left would ever be very dangerous. Moreover, Johansson still has not corrected the basic mistake of dropping his right hand, which last time left him open to Patterson's left hook. But the way Ingo explains his defeat, he tried to lean back from Patterson's left instead of ducking under it. This time, he says, he will duck...
After one rugged session with Patterson, a battered sparring partner last week emerged from the ring to say: "He sends a very sincere message." In the betting on next week's fight, the odds are that Johansson will be on the receiving end of that message...