Word: 16d
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high school, basketball is a giant's game. New York City alone has 50-odd high school players taller than 6 ft. 5 in.-but Power's Lew Alcindor, at 7 ft. 1 in. and 235 Ibs., is a giant among the giants. He wears a size 16D sneaker, and he can palm a basketball faster than a cop can palm an apple. In practice, he stands idly under the backboard sucking on a lollipop, dropping ball after ball into the 10-ft.-high basket-without ever leaving his feet. In a game, his specialties are the "dunk...