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...most of every game, most of that reality was Bobby Orr. Soon after he broke into the National Hockey League in 1966 at the age of 18, Orr began to build a reputation as the best defenseman ever to play the game-and probably the best all-round player as well. He may well be the most accomplished professional athlete currently active in any sport. Unassuming off the ice, Orr takes command when he is on it. And he often seems to be all over it. Sighs Ranger Coach Emile Francis: "Hell, I see him make a fantastic play...
...wife's from Pennsylvania, and I think I'm a pretty typical fellow." He seems a hard man, with dark black hair and a dirty t-shirt. He was for Lindsay, he tells me, and waits to enjoy my surprise. "I believe what the country needs is an all-round liberal man, but if Lindsay is dropping out, I'm for Wallace because he's against this forced busin' and he's the only one who is." There's a lot he doesn't like about Wallace though, having lived for a while in Alabama under his high sales...
...Knicks have no one of the Chamberlain or West magnitude. Their strength -carefully nurtured by Coach Red Holzman-lies in remarkable poise, extraordinary all-round skill at any position on the court, and almost uncanny balance. If some of the players cool off, others almost always compensate by heating up as scorers, rebounders or playmakers. If the Lakers are a team of carefully selected specialists, the Knicks are an impressive pack of general practitioners...
Mark Spitz of Indiana, perhaps the best all-round swimmer in the world, tightened his stranglehold on the 200-yd. butterfly, breaking the American and NCAA record in the trials and going on to shatter that mark hours later with a 1:48.48 clocking...
That probably is not the way the new RCA rock version of Handel's Messiah came into being-but one wonders. Rarely has so much conceit, commercial cynicism, bad taste, musical ignorance and all-round incompetence been brought together within the grooves of a single LP. Written and arranged by Producer David Axelrod (Electric Prunes), conducted by the jazz world's Cannonball Adderley, the RCA Messiah has something to offend everyone. For lovers of vocal style, there is singing that would not pass muster in the 1950s-parody group Sha-Na-Na. For devotees of pure rock, there...