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Show Army Gives Clay The Honest Toe WASHINGTON AP The Army has told Congress that heavyweight champion Cassius Clay was rejected after he "honestly "hon-estly and truly" failed draft mental tests, and it was confirmed con-firmed by experts that Clay did not fake the results to avoid induction. in-duction. THE ARMY'S refusal to accept the heavyweight champion of the world has triggered an anti-draft anti-draft reaction among many people, peo-ple, Bow said, adding: "It is difficult to believe that Cassius Clay cannot pass the simple mental examinations. It is difficult to resist the thought that he was rejected because the Army did not know what to do with him if they had him." Clay was rejected in tests taken tak-en both before and after he won the championship last Feb. 25. |