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...anticipated the passing of a giant, a unique athlete whose skills and life had resonances far beyond the ring. As Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., Cassius X, or Muhammad Ali, he had talked from center stage, mirror and lightning rod for a tumultuous era. Olympic gold medalist, Louisville Lip, upstart champion, Black Muslim convert, draft resister, abomination, martyr, restored champion, road show...
...acquire an emotional importance. Quarterback Joe Namath, who retired several weeks ago after 13 years in pro football, is one. In his early years with the New York Jets, Namath's popular image had more to do with booze and stewardesses than football. His feats alone brought the upstart American Football League into parity with the National Football League. But like Ali, Namath's lasting imprint in memory involves certain splendidly perfect moves: his flickingly fast release of passes, his clairvoyant readings of defenses and where his receivers would be. Like Ali, Namath could be an arrogant gamesman...
...year later, eight of Shockley's ablest collaborators quit, and with backing from Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. founded Fairchild Semiconductor. The new firm prospered and eventually began to spawn its own host of upstart competitors as its technicians, one after another, decided to go into business for themselves...
Everyone take a deep breath, and exhale slowly with a long sigh of relief. Amid all sorts of doubts and pessimism, the Harvard hockey team bumped off an optimistic and upstart Northeastern squad at 0:53 of overtime last night on Gene Purdy's heartstopper...
...could produce a masterpiece only when you succeeded in emulating 17th century masters in all possible details." At 18 he rebelled and invented an ikebana all his own. When he told his father it represented "an extension of his individualism," Wafu slapped his face. Seven years later the upstart left home to found his own school where his works could reflect his "burning and brimming emotion." Now his son, Hiroshi, 50, a famed film director (Woman in the Dunes) is vice president of Sofu's company and its chief ceramicist; his beautiful daughter, Kasumi, 45, also a vice president...