Word: balle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...OSBORN BALL...
...from Michigan. What's more, both teams had equal rights to him by virtue of their last-place tie in the National Basketball Association. So they flipped a $20 gold piece. The Knicks won Russell, and the Pistons settled for Syracuse's Dave Bing, 22, a college-ball hawk but a pretty small man at 6 ft. 3 in. to stand up against the giants in the N.B.A...
...year man chosen to start the N.B.A.'s All-Star game, which the East won 144-124, Bing contributed the gem of the evening. He stole a pass, drove in for a lay-up only to find his shot blocked; still in midair, he wrenched around, shifted the ball from his left to his right hand and sank it from a different angle...
...find a cure for the common code used by enemy agents. When hiring new girls for his staff, Sebastian confronts them with questions like "How many words can you make from thorough!" And "What is Naitsabes spelled backward?" A Queeg in mufti, he compulsively fingers a rubber ball as he orders his overworked underlings to "switch your gorgeous minds to overdrive." From time to time, Sebastian mutters antiheroic cliches to himself, like "I'm a septic tank for the world's ugly secrets...
...most excitement of the day may come when the Tigers' super-soph Geoff Petrie matches up with Columbia's McMillian. Both are good ball handlers with slick moves. They probably won't play head-to-head most of the game but there may be moments of struggle...