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...took temporary refuge in Spain last March, Christine sent a postcard home. "Marvellous place," she wrote. "Lots of nice-looking men. Don't worry, having a ball." Since then, the ball has continued, more or less, and so has fame. At the Cassius C!ay fight at Wembley Stadium last week, there was a sudden flurry as a glamorous woman swept to her ringside seat. "Is that Christine Keeler?" asked a spectator. "No," said his neighbor, "only Elizabeth Taylor...
London's biggest boxing crowd in years-35,000-was on hand at Wembley Stadium hoping to see Henry Cooper, 29, button the Louisville Lip. Not that anyone really expected it. Cooper might be the British and Empire heavyweight champion, but he was older by eight years and outweighed by 21 Ibs.; then, too, there was all that tender scar tissue around Cooper's battered eyes. "I'm afraid our 'Enery will 'ave to 'it 'im over the bonce with Bow bells to beat 'im," admitted one Londoner. But Clay...
...microphone. "Cooper is boxing magnificently." All through the first round and into the second, Cooper kept flicking lefts inside Clay's careless guard, keeping him off balance, forcing him to backpedal. The crowd howled. The BBC was ecstatic. "Oh, what a lovely sound for Henry Cooper here at Wembley. He shook Clay, and that was exactly the stimulus he needed to make him wicked. Clay is looking very bemused. He's very worried...
Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Indianapolis 500-mile auto race, and the European soccer championship-Portugal v. Italy-from Wembley Stadium in London...
...London's Wembley Pool, the biggest (12,000), noisiest crowd of the week turned out to watch Local Hero Henry Cooper tune up for a title fight with Patterson by fighting the U.S.'s seventh-ranked Zora Folley-whom Cooper had beaten in 1958. Folley had other ideas. Trimmed down to a rock-hard 194 lbs., he sliced Cooper's tender face with slashing jabs in the first round, split open his nose and left eyebrow. In the second round, blood streaming from his wounds, Cooper fielded a right with his prominent jaw and sank...