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LISTON AND PRIEST

POLAND SPRING, Me.--Sonny Liston, key figure in the most controversial

heavyweight championship fight in history, visits with an old friend,

Father Alois J. Stevens, pastor of St. Lawrence's church, Monett, Mo.

Father Stevens, who went to Lewiston, Me., to watch Liston's ill-fated

bout with champion Cassius Clay, is credited with introducing Liston to

boxing -- at a time when the onetime champion was famed only as a jail-

bird.

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