Word: middleweights
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...Since Virginia refused to subsidize football players, it got trounced regularly on the gridiron. Recalls Law School Dean Frederick Ribble: "The students were humiliated. They felt their manhood was in question. Then along came Morty, the boxer. He started knocking people down and became a hero." Dogged Middleweight Caplin fought for a time with a broken bone in his right hand...
...international oil world of giants, Belgium's Petrofina is not notable for size; it ranks 18th among all oil companies. The remarkable fact about Petrofina is that it has become a strapping middleweight with hardly more than a skeleton to work with. After World War II, its lone refinery was in ruins, its fleet reduced to one 9,500-ton tanker and its only oilfields nationalized by Communist Rumania. Today it presides over 60 main subsidiaries in 18 countries, 10,000 service stations in Europe alone and a tanker fleet that totals 1,000,000 tons. Last year...
...garrison at Nsukka." The odds makers decided that the muscular Igbo tribesman was only half kidding. Last week, as he stepped into the outdoor ring at San Francisco's chilly Candlestick Park, Tiger was a 1-2 favorite to beat one of boxing's most durable champions: Middleweight Gene Fullmer, 31, the brawling, broken-nosed Mormon elder who won his title back in 1959, has successfully defended it seven times since...
...once had anyone knocked him off his own feet. Some of the opponents were easy marks-and his list of conquests included such improbable names as Black Power, Mighty Joe, Super Human Power and Easy Dynamite (whom he kayoed in one round). But he won the British Empire middleweight crown in 1958, earned a shot at a world title with sharp, knockout victories over Britain's Terry Downes and Cuba's Florentino Fernandez. "I think I know how to beat Fullmer," he said before the fight. "Stay on top of him all the time...
Divorced. Sugar Ray Robinson (born Walker Smith), 41, five times world's middleweight champion; by ex-Showgirl Edna Mae Robinson, 38; on uncontested grounds of incompatibility; after 19 years of marriage, one son; in Juarez, Mexico...