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...This means more to me than anything," Wilt said afterward. Anything, that is, except winning-which the Philadelphia 76ers did, 149 to 123, and which they have been doing all season with such regularity that last week they trailed the World Champion Boston Celtics by only i game. With Wilt averaging 34.6 points and 24 rebounds a game, getting plenty of help from the likes of Hal Greer, Chet Walker and Bill Cunningham, Chamberlain may yet have the ultimate reply for his critics: an N.B.A. championship...
...President then took off for his Los Angeles meeting with Hubert Humphrey. When Johnson landed, Humphrey was ushered aboard the plane for an hour-long briefing. Afterward, faithful "Mother"-Johnson's electronic podium with built-in prompter screens- was trundled into a nearby hangar so that the President could read a statement to newsmen. "The road ahead may be long and difficult," he said, "but we shall fight the battle against aggression in Viet Nam; we shall fight the battle for social construction; and throughout the world, we shall fight the battle for peace. And we shall prevail...
...love," an American divorcee named Wallis Warfield Simpson. Afterward, the ex-King, who was narrator as well as star of the film, murmured to French reporters: "Beaucoup de tristesse et beaucoup de joie...
William Samuel Rosenberg began to attract attention as an undersized schoolboy. He became a winning sprinter "by jumping the gun without detection." Soon afterward he stopped growing. But he kept on running, and he never stopped jumping the competition. He was too tiny-5 ft. 3 in.-to compete physically, so he decided to lead with his right: he became a stenographer. The day before he was to compete in a worldwide shorthand contest, he broke an index finger. He worked his way around the injury by jamming his pen through a potato, then took dictation while holding the potato...
...called it quits in 1894-and for his pains earned the disapproval of the French National Assembly, which demanded a more thorough investigation. Government opinion, however, seems to have quietly come round to Griffin's conclusions, for a Mallet union founded in Rochefort in 1926 was disbanded shortly afterward-on police orders...