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...Vicoate Rondon, former World Boxing Association light heavyweight champion, yesterday accused his trainer of drugging him before Bob Foster knocked him out in an April 7 title fight...
According to Rondon, his trainer, Sase Betancourt, gave him a "strange pill" and sugared brandy shortly before the fight began. "I had to be awakened for the weigh-in." Rondon said, Observers described him as frightened when he entered the ring with foster...
Harvard wrestled aggressively from the start as Jay Galeski won his first match of the season, taking a 10-6 decision at 118 pounds. C. C. N. Y. countered as captain Jose Rondon, 126 pounds, gave the Beavers a brief lead, pinning Dave Kreis...
...winners: History: Constance McLaughlin Green's Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878; Biography: Leon Edel's two-volume continuation of his life of Henry James, The Conquest of London and The Middle Years; General nonfiction: Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August; News photography: Hector Rondon of La Republica, Caracas; Cartoon: Frank Miller of the Des Moines Register; Editorial writing: Ira B. Harkey Jr. of the Pascagoula, Miss., Chronicle; Local reporting not under deadline: Oscar O. Griffin Jr. of the Pecos, Texas, Independent and Enterprise; Local reporting under deadline: Sylvan Fox, Anthony Shannon and William Longgood...
Such dedication helped Rondon, one of the most beloved Brazilians in history, to pacify 150,000 Indians through a network of 100 outposts, today linked by radio and airplane. But the continuing development of Brazil's interior has only aggravated the problem, as the advancing armies of road builders and jungle clearers encounter hitherto isolated tribes. And Rondon's successors-he died in 1958 at 92-are divided as to the problem's solution. Colonel Tasso Villar de Aquino, 49, who now heads the Indian Protection Service, thinks that the Indian must be integrated into the white...