When I was a kid, maybe 14 or so, 1968, I was with my parents driving through Indianapolis and stopped at some restaurant. As we pulled in, this purple Caddy, an Eldo I think, parked next to us and this large sharp-dressed black man and a VERY nice looking woman (even then I had the eye!), who apparently was not his wife at the time, get out of the Caddy, my dad says, "That's Cassius Clay!" (Not sure if he was MA at that time, but even so my unreconstructed dad would have called him CC.) Anyway, they go in and get a table kinda next to us, and everybody was looking and whispering. Not sure what shocked them most, that it was him or a black man and woman in the restaurant (somewhat unusual at that time, still) but NO ONE was going to argue with him! They finished about the time we did, paid, got up and left, and he said hello to people as he walked out. He was very quiet and polite, no bluster at all like you saw in the ring. I was quite impressed, I think I said hello to him at one point and he helloed back or nodded or something.
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