Word: trooper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...severest critics by utterly demolishing the man who was supposed to be his toughest challenger: Cleveland ("Big Cat") Williams. Granted, Williams, at 33, was nearly ten years older than Clay, and he was not exactly intact; in 1964, a .357 magnum bullet from a Texas state trooper's pistol had ripped through his stomach, costing him a kidney. But at 6 ft. 2 in. and 210 Ibs., he was still a genuine tough guy - with a record of 51 knockouts and 65 victories in 71 pro fights. "Williams has the essential of a real champion - a punch," said...
Magnum in the Belly. Cleveland did, and it almost cost him his life. Flagged down for speeding, he got in a scuffle with a Texas state trooper-and caught a .357 magnum bullet in the belly. Four operations (plus 30 days in jail) later and 58 lbs. lighter, he went to work on Benbow's 2,600-acre cattle ranch in Yoakum, Texas, tossing 80-lb. hay bales to rebuild his atrophied muscles. Finally, last June, Williams scored a third-round TKO over Tod Herring, the tenth-ranked heavyweight contender, thereby won a shot at Champion Clay...
...satisfied to snag speeders with only prowl cars and radar traps, the Florida highway patrol has a three-plane air force. At a couple of dozen locations, Florida highways are festooned with white stripes a quarter-mile apart. Orbiting at altitudes of 800 ft. to 1,500 ft., a trooper in a Piper Cub can clock cars whizzing by below. If his stop watch says a car has raced over the quarter-mile stretch too fast (less than 12.8 sec. in a 70-m.p.h. zone), the flying cop radios a cruiser on the ground to make the arrest...
...months after the death of her husband. Detouring on a trip from Washington to Hyde Park, F.D.R.'s private train pulled into Allamuchy around 2:30 a.m. At mid-morning he was lifted off in his wheelchair, visited with Mrs. Rutherfurd until 5:30 p.m. State Trooper Joseph J. Skelly, now 55, recalled that F.D.R., then campaigning for his fourth term, "looked very drawn...
CNVA does not ask for protection, Hayes said, and he had no criticism of the state trooper who had left the walk. "We don't ask for police protection--we always try to talk to people," he said...