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King and ABC denied any favoritism, however, and cards were televised on four more weekends. Then the spotlight shifted to Ring, the most respected publication in boxing. Ring's rankings of fighters in every weight division have been boxing's 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...
After two years of passing off to French and Levine, 150-lb. superstar Eamon McEneaney finally has the spotlight all to himself. Harvard will try hard to control the diminutive menace while the Crimson's own talented attack trio tries to get at Mackesey. The contest may be closer this time around, but when all is said and done, look for the longer winning streak to survive...
...match was something of a landmark in Harvard golf, as a freshman woman Leslie Greis played number one. She lost her match five and four. However, she had her moment in the spotlight when she stood on the same first tee where Walter Hagen began his playoff round to win the U.S. Open in 1919, and outdrove both her male opponents before the players from all three squads...
...well-known, has a massive ego. Could not the proliferation of the fight game while he remained in retirement be reason enough to fight again? People are talking so much about fighters like Norton and Young that Ali may feel the spotlight slowly shifting off him towards new athletes. Thus, his "unretirement" takes on almost as much a publicity angle as it does a financial one. Ali says he is the greatest, and may simply want recognition of that fact while it still may be true...
...national candidate. (Hence Robert Dole.) During the election Republicans utilized Connally's ties to big money more than they did his campaigning ability. Ford even offered him the chairmanship of the party last year, but Connally declined this one-way ticket to the backstage and out of the national spotlight. Connally is too ambitious to be sent to the old age home already...