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Frustration reached its apex in the next series of plays. When Penn's Karl Vogeizang missed a shot, Bob Inman grabbed the arching rebound and raced down court at the held of a four-on-two fast break. But his pass to Leo Scully under the basket bounced off Carozo's leg. The Penn captain grabbed the ball; moments later Jeff Neuman drove up the free throw lane through three Crimson players, made a layup and was fouled...
McClung specializes in short shots, hook shots, and over-the-head flips, near the basket; even opponents as tall as 6-9 haven't been able to stop him. The only way to contain McClung is a tight defense which prevents his teammates from working the ball into him. But even that isn't much of a defense since Big Merle is one of the best outside-shooting centers in the Ivy League...
Mcclung is not really a big man as centers go: he stands 6-5 and weights 200 pounds. But the combination of sheer physical strength and deceptive moves under the basket have given McClung a 21.9 Ivy average--third beat in the League--and a 20.7 points per game overall scoring mark. At that rate the hot-shooting Harvard junior will eclipse the Crimson scoring record of 432 points...
With 50 seconds left, the Crimson worked the ball into McClung, who was two feet from the basket, but Andrews knocked his shot out of bounds. Moments later Sedlacek missed on his patented jump shot...
...uninitiated, a slut may remain a woman of easy virtue. But the dictionary's first definition is "a slovenly woman; a slattern," and that's the one the Observer's Whitehorn also likes. She asks: "Have you ever taken anything out of the dirty-clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing? Changed stockings in a taxi? Could you try on clothes in any shop, any time, without worrying about your underclothes? How many things are in the wrong room-cups in the study, boots in the kitchen?" The right answers, says Whitehorn, make...