Amateur boxer Pete Spanakos: “I have a twin brother…You were
skipping rope with him a minute ago”
Both Pete and
Nick are boxers about to make their professional debuts. Both had impressive amateur credentials. In addition to various Golden Gloves titles,
Pete won a Bronze medal at the Pan American Games in 1959, and Nick competed in
the 1960 Olympics. Their professional
careers would not be as successful. Each
only made a single professional appearance.
Nick won his bout in 1967, and Pete lost his in 1965.
Special guest George Hamilton is looking into a small viewfinder
with a magnifier: “I am watching the panel on television”
The National Cash Register Company was
one of many corporate sponsors who had pavilions in the 1964 and 1965 New York
World’s Fair, exhibiting their newest technological breakthroughs. NCR was particularly focused on
miniaturization (See
E566
). The tiny television image is only one sixteenth of
an inch wide. Hamilton is starring as
Hank Williams in the film Your Cheatin’
Heart (1964).
Burke Moody from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: “I’m the
inter-collegiate skateboard champion”
Skateboarding
is believed to have originated in California in the early 1950s, giving surfers
something to do on land. It began to
expand across the country in the early 1960s and was still a bit of a novelty
in 1965. Still, Henry is familiar enough
with it to guess correctly, calling it one of those “wacky” things that college
students do. Moody and a fellow
competitor perform what today would be considered pretty simple moves on a flat
stage. Today, skateboarding is a
multi-billion dollar industry with its own culture. It debuted as an Olympic sport in the 2020
Olympics.
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