Word: balling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...road against Illinois last week, he poured in 45 points as the No. 1-ranked Bruins won their 16th in a row, 120-82. When Alcindor came out of the game with 6¼ min. still to go, officials whistled the play dead and presented him with the ball...
...course, everybody on the pro tour concedes that Jack is "the longest accurate hitter in golf." But like all long hitters, Jack is also a high hitter, and it is a simple law of physics that the longer a golf ball stays airborne, the more it is affected by wind. The tournament draw put him at the ocean-side Cypress Point course next day- and there the wind was howling in off the Pacific at 40 m.p.h., bending flag sticks over until the tips touched the ground. Nicklaus double-bogied three straight holes in the wind, and groaned...
When Mrs. Post attends a party, Palm Beach does little but prepare for the event weeks in advance. Last week, resplendent in a white and silver gown trimmed in turquoise, she opened the resort's charity-ball season by attending the Red Cross's 1967 international gala. Among her guests were no fewer than ten of Washington's liveliest or most sought-after diplomatic couples, including the ambassadors (and their wives) of India, Japan, France and Morocco...
...second half came the Packers, the ultimate professionals, cool, competent, computerized-and more than a little mad. When Lenny Dawson tried to pass, he found himself staring at three onrushing Green Bay defenders-and threw the ball away, straight into the arms of Packer Safety-man Willie Wood, who ran it all the way back to the Kansas City five...
Died. Reese ("Goose") Tatum, 45, clown prince of basketball, star of the world-famed Harlem Globetrotters from 1942 to 1955 and since then with his own Harlem Magicians, a jolly black giant of a man who brought razzle-dazzle ball handling to the sort of high art and low comedy that earned him more at his peak ($65,000 a year) than he could have made with a straight pro team; after a long illness; in El Paso...