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ALI-FOREMAN MITO SENZA FINE IL MONDO CAMBIÒ CINQUANT’ANNI FA Il 30 ottobre l’anniversario del Mondiale dei massimi 1974: il primo in Africa, mise a confronto due idee di America Ali, con la tattica di appoggiarsi alle corde, tolse tutte le energie a Foreman Foreman certo non aveva la personalità del rivale e ne fu sovrastato 16 Oct 2024 - La Gazzetta dello Sport di Riccardo Crivelli The Rumble in the Jungle. Il terremoto (in realtà il rombo del tuono, ma anche la rissa di strada, ndr) nella giungla. Un ring. Due campioni. Una notte memorabile. Il 30 ottobre, saranno passati cinquant’anni dal Mondiale dei massimi tra Ali e Foreman a Kinshasa: non un semplice incontro di pugilato. Ma lo sport che si fa storia, cultura, messaggio planetario di riscatto sociale e presa di coscienza. Un giorno che rimarrà eterno. La vigilia  Nel 1974, il campione WBC dei pesi massimi è George Foreman . Nato in Texas nel 1949, da giovane deve fronteggiare molti problemi con la legge per il carattere viol...

In Chicago, the nomination of Hubert Humphrey was never in doubt  — but the convention was still a very disorderly affair. Photograph from AP https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/a-great-writer-at-the-1968-democratic-disaster Cultural Comment By August 26, 2018 Fifty years ago this week, the Democrats held their National Convention in Chicago (August 26th to 29th), an assembly torn apart by pro- and antiwar factions in the hall and violent clashes in the street. It was the convention that, in effect, turned the country over to Richard Nixon and led to six more years of war in Vietnam. From a contemporary point of view, the only element that redeems the event from complete sorrow is the scathing and poetic book that Norman Mailer wrote about it, “Miami and the Siege of Chicago,” one of the essential works of American reporting. Mailer got going as a political reporter in 1960 when he covered the Democratic National Convention that summer—the Kennedy convention—for Esq...

Protesters standing in front of a row of National Guard soldiers, across the street from the  Hilton Hotel at Grant Park, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, August 26, 1968.  Credit: Warren K. Leffler/Wikimedia Commons https://interactive.wttw.com/playlist/2024/08/20/miami-and-siege-chicago-norman-mailer The Infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, as Seen by Novelist Norman Mailer Daniel Hautzinger August 20, 2024 In Norman Mailer’s book, Miami and the Siege of Chicago , he writes of the 1968 Democratic National Convention held in Chicago , “The convention was the wildest Democratic convention in decades, perhaps in more than forty years, and the bitterest, the most violent, the most disorderly, most painful, and in certain ways the most uncontrolled…” The famed writer had first won recognition for novels, and brought some of the techniques and first-person narrative of that fiction to his reporting on such events as the political conventions th...