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In 1965, Rodriguez became the first Puerto Rican to sing the Puerto Rican national anthem, La Borinqueña, at a sporting event, celebrated at Madison Square Garden in New York City, where fellow Puerto Rican José " Chegui " Torres won the World Light Heavyweight boxing title in a fight against Willie Pastrano which was televised coast to coast in the United States.
Wilfred Raleigh Pastrano ( November 27, 1935 — December 6, 1997 ) was a light heavyweight boxer who held the world crown from 1963 until 1965.
Pastrano was born in New Orleans.
Pastrano lost his crown when he was TKOed by José Torres in 10 rounds ( the same fight where the ringside doctor asked if he knew where he was, leading to Pastrano's legendary line of " You're damn right I know where I am!
In the Torres fight, Pastrano was knocked down for the only time in his career by a powerful left hook to the liver.
Managed by the legendary Angelo Dundee, Pastrano was a smooth, quick boxer with a great left hand.
On August 30, 1966 in the Milwaukee Sentinel, it was reported that Pastrano had been secretly training for a comeback, but an auto injury had sidelined it.
Pastrano said in a 1980 interview he was a heroin addict from 1966-1969.
Pastrano was reported to be boxing in Puerto Rico in 1972, but a fighter was using a name similar to the former champion, Willie Pastrana.
In 1980, Pastrano was the manager for pro-boxer, Chubby Johnson in New Orleans.
Pastrano retained the championship with a sixth round knockout in a fight that had different views from boxing magazines ; while the general consensus is that Pastrano was actually winning the fight when it was stopped, Ring En Español actually claimed twenty years later that Peralta was hitting Pastrano and had him against the ropes when the referee intervened and raised Pastrano's arm as the fight's winner.
The truth is a cut opened in the second Thornton fight re-opened during Peralta's challenge of Pastrano and the bout was, to some hastily, to others justifiably, halted.

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He defended that undisputed title twice, but lost it in his second defense to Willie Pastrano in 1963, by a split decision in fifteen rounds.
However, urged on by his good friend, singer Steve Alaimo, Pastrano embarked on a film career which spanned from 1967-1971.
The charter converting the municipality of Oroquieta into a city are signed by President Marcos on June 25, 1969 in the presence of the then City Mayor, the late Ciriaco C. Pastrano, with the newly elected councilors and other city officials.

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Best known for his work with Muhammad Ali ( 1960 – 1981 ), he also worked with 15 other world boxing champions, including Sugar Ray Leonard, José Nápoles, George Foreman, George Scott, Jimmy Ellis, Carmen Basilio, Luis Rodriguez and Willie Pastrano.

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He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.
Kathy was already in the wagon.
She already knew this unwholesome, chilling atmosphere that was somehow grotesquely alive.
He'd put on his old brown corduroy coat and it was already soaked.
Against all expectation, Carmer was inside, clearly enjoying himself to the hilt and already so tipsy that it seemed unlikely he was bothering to note anything or anyone about him.
But it also made him conspicuous to the enemy, if it was the enemy, and he hadn't been spotted already.
As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.
His hair was black, already greying at the temples in the classic beauty-idiom, the only one permitted to a man.
and Robinson Roy, who had gone down this line ten minutes before to set a new depth record for the free dive, was already back on the surface.
A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.
Outside it was already hot at 7:30 A.M., and it was getting hot in the kitchen.
But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.
It is a weakness of Gabriel's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy.
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.
The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.
In the eyes of those who still cared for such things, it was a reflection on his honor, and it gave further grounds for complaint to his overtaxed subjects, who were already grumbling -- although probably not in Latin -- `` Non est lex sana Quod regi sit mea lana ''.
Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.
The failures of the U.N. and of other international organs suggest that we have already gone beyond what was internationally feasible.
The situation already was bad because the Legislature moved the governor's race forward a few months, causing the campaigning to get started earlier than usual.
But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.
It was not so much that the shot had stunned the audience, as that they had been stunned already.
The news of battle on Breed's Hill had already seeped through, and New York itself was now left in the hands of the local Provincial Congress.

was and married
They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.
It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.
Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.
After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.
Ann Catt was a lonely, devoted soul, never married, conducting a spotless home and devoted to her church, but a perpetual dissenter and born critic.
But yes, nineteen plus thirty was forty-nine, and she was forty-nine and she had been married at nineteen.
When they first married he had been working in the fields all day, and she would get in the car and drive to wherever he was working, to take him a fresh hot meal.
Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.
They were married at a lavish ceremony which was duly recorded in Parvenu and all other magazines and newspapers, and then they honeymooned in Bermuda.
Then there was the caterer's ad which read: `` are you getting married or having an affair??
This action was rationalized on the basis of a small survey which indicated that a high percentage of married freshmen women on our campus never become sophomores.
But the greater part of semester time was actually centered around the attitudes: `` So we are married -- now how do we make the best of it ''??
Supplemental outside reading reports were handled just as in the other sections, the major difference being that there was a noticeably deeper level in the reported outside reading by the married group.
He was a Londoner, married, with three sons.
After he had been away from home about a year he wrote: `` ( dear Wife ) if I did not write and receive letters from you I believe that I would forgit that I was married.
The morning he walked in to announce to her, blushing, that he was married.
She was married to him for better or for worse.
The couple was married Aug. 2, 1913.
Miss Joan Frances Baker, a graduate of SMU, was married Saturday to Elvis Leonard Mason, an honor graduate of Lamar State College of Technology, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston.
Miss Shirley Joan Meredith, a former student of North Texas State University, was married Saturday to Larry W. Mills, who has attended Arlington State College.
I had also thought a lot about how God must look on true love, and so in a way I was keeping my promise to God, my promise to remain pure until I was married.

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