Word: welterweight
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...Central America. Instead of sticking to the usual bland official generalities, Nixon wowed his Cuban audience at Havana's military airport by confiding that he greatly admired the prowess of three eminent Cuban athletes: Washington Senators Pitcher Conrado Marrero, Chicago White Sox Outfielder Orestes Minoso and ex-Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan...
...Neubergers settled in a spacious, eleven-room old house in Portland with a half-Manx, hermaphrodite cat named Muffet, and lived pleasantly in a world of welterweight music, gardens, politics, and a tidal wave of Neuberger articles. In 1950 after Dick had graduated to the state senate, Maurine filed for a seat in the lower house. Both, of course, ran as Democrats. Dick has said that people wonder why they insist on sticking to a party label that was such a liability in Oregon. He explains: "Evidently martyrdom suits our personalities. Maurine and I enjoy being caribou in timberwolf terrain...
...Johnny's week for charming judges. In the ring with Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan just the night before, he had butted, bunny-hugged and bulled his way through a feeble 15-round imitation of a fist fight, walked off with a unanimous decision and the Kid's title. A loud majority of the fans agreed that no performance had raised such a stink in Convention Hall since the Progressive Party Convention...
TELEVISION Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Kid Gavilan v. Johnny Saxton, for the world's welterweight championship...
Johnny Saxton, fighting a counter punching battle, stripped listless Kid Gavilan of his world welterweight title last night on a unanimous decision in a dull 15 round fight in Philadelphia's Convention Hall...