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...film biography of the Champ, which will be opening at your local theaters later this month. Come to think of it, that pitch was the only thing Ali threw all night....Rumor has it that Don King may be arranging a return bout between Ali and Rocky Marciano, whose WBA rating unexpectedly skyrocketed to the number 11 position (right behind Evangelista) last week. I tried calling Marciano, but to no avail. Keep your ears to the ground on this one...Who was the third emperor of Rome?...Who played "Ethel" in the old "Lucy" series?...Who was Elizabeth Taylor...
...fighter who stunned Sonny Liston with contemptuous authority. But, when after falling under the spell of Malcolm X, the religion of Islam, and the disciplined dignity of Elijah Muhammad's followers. Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali and Muhammad Ali attracted the wrath of white American bureaucratic brontosaurs like the WBA, the Selective Service, and the American Legion, the world beyond the buttons developed a clinging passion to the man who had become their champion. In Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arab world, even in Europe, England and the American center cities, crowds of people of all colors followed...
...Holworthy residents drafted the letter after reading comments of journalists who questioned Clay's patriotism. When Clay refused the army's call to induction on religious grounds--he is a Black Muslim minister--the World Boxing Association stripped him of his title crown, and most columnists supported the WBA...
Robert H. Yolken '70, who helped draft the letter, said yesterday that he and most of the other freshmen involved are not boxing enthusiasts. But they felt that the WBA and other boxing associa- tions had been unfair in revoking the title, especially since Clay's case is still in the courts...
Lipsyte wrote in his extensive piece in the Times Sunday that the men who run boxing wanted to see Clay refuse to serve. "The discrimination was purely economic," he writes. "Clay was too good to make money with any longer." This just could be the reason for the WBA's hasty action...