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...break." Twyman gets away his one-hand jump and two-hand set with deceptive speed, arches his shots so high they can even clear the soaring blocks of Philadelphia's mighty Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain (7 ft. 2 in., 250 Ibs.). Says the Boston Celtics' Coach Red Auerbach: "Show Twyman a little daylight and-boom-it's up and in." Dogged Development. Last week, given a little daylight by Boston, Twyman scored 40 points to lead the Royals to a 128-115 victory that snapped the champions' winning streak at 17, just one short...
...hour microscopic examinations of each of 19,797 exquisitely thin slivers of tissue from human lungs, medical researchers reported last week that they had found the strongest anatomical evidence that heavy cigarette smoking is a potent cause of lung cancer. At the A.M.A.'s Dallas meeting, Dr. Oscar Auerbach of East Orange, N.J. told how he and a distinguished colleague, Dr. Arthur Purdy Sout (retired professor of pathology at Columbia Uni versity's College of Physicians and Surgeons), had examined the magnified tissue slides, cell by cell. Working with them were two statisticians, Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond...
...cancer has been based on epidemiological studies-retrospective checks on whether victims had been heavy smokers and prospective checks on whether many heavy smokers eventually died of the disease. Wanted, said critics of these studies, was anatomical evidence showing the gradual development of cancer in smokers' lungs. Dr. Auerbach's previous reports (1955 and 1957) on this development had been challenged on technical grounds. This time, his four-man team was determined to plug every conceivable research loophole...
...With lanky (6 ft. 10 in.) Bill Russell mopping up the backboards, the Boston Celtics crushed the Minneapolis Lakers in four straight games to win the playoffs of the National Basketball Association, justify the claim of winning Coach Red Auerbach that they were "the greatest team in the history of the sport...
LaRusso was easily the outstanding player on the floor, pulling down 12 rebounds, and moving in and out of the key-hole with rare agility for a man his size. Probably knowing that he was being watched by Celtic coach Red Auerbach, the 6 ft., 6 in. forward succeeded in putting on a good show. And he had help from his talented teammates, notably Sosnowski, Kaufman, and Gary Vandeweghe...