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...fund the Red Army in the early 1940s, Mao grew opium, bringing in as much as $60 million a year. He stopped after overproduction drove down the price and Party officials?though not Mao?decided the practice was unseemly...
...DIED. GEORGE MIKAN, 80, pro basketball's first powerful "big man," whose aggressive play and graceful, ambidextrous hook shots elevated the sport's profile during the 1940s and '50s and led the Minneapolis Lakers to five championships in the team's first six years; in Scottsdale, Arizona. At a time when towering players were thought to be insufficiently nimble, the bespectacled, 2.08 m DePaul graduate single-handedly dominated the newly formed National Basketball Association, drawing crowds, forcing the league to establish new rules (the original 1.83 m key was expanded to thwart his offensive dominance), and once prompting New York...
...question-and-answer session, Frist said that the “new Manhattan Project” would not be as secretive or as highly centralized as its early-1940s namesake...
DIED. GEORGE MIKAN, 80, pro basketball's first powerful big man, whose graceful, ambidextrous hook shots elevated the sport's profile during the 1940s and '50s and led the Minneapolis Lakers to five titles in the team's first six years; of kidney failure; in Scottsdale, Ariz. The 6-ft. 10-in. DePaul graduate so dominated the newly formed NBA that he forced the league to change its rules, expanding the 6-ft. "key" to thwart his offensive dominance, and once prompted Madison Square Garden officials to promote a 1949 game as "Geo. Mikan vs. Knicks...
...question-and-answer session, Frist said that the “new Manhattan Project” would not be as secretive or as highly centralized as its early-1940s namesake...