Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their best guard, Jerry West, is accident prone. Their best forward, Elgin Baylor, is a 33-year-old with two bad knees. Their coach, Bill van Breda Kolff, is a first-year man who learned his trade in the Ivy League. Yet, after losing 22 of their first 44 games...
Feeding the Hot Hand. Baylor's career appeared finished after a horrendous accident in 1965 that tore off the top eighth of his left kneecap, followed by surgery for removal of calcium deposits. All last summer, under the direction of Dr. Robert Kerlan, the Los Angeles orthopedic surgeon who...
No one was injured in the collision, which, according to Vik, was caused by "an apologetic policeman who was supposed to be directing traffic but who instead directed an accident." The damages to the automobiles, however, were considerably more costly than a package of Titleists. All of which goes to...
Konrad Lorenz, the Austrian-born naturalist, believes that human aggressiveness is the instinct that powers not only self-preservation against enemies but also love and friendship for those who share the struggle. Overcoming obstacles provides selfesteem; lacking such fulfillment, man turns against handy targets-his wife, even himself. Polar explorers...
Valente got into the espresso business literally by accident. A school dropout at twelve, he worked at a variety of jobs until, at 18, an accident cost him three of his fingers. He collected $1,000 in insurance and invested the money in a Milanese workshop on a back street...