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...commit an armed robbery. He was dissuaded. Another, Daniel Parker, 30, tries to exorcise his nightmares. Sometimes when he sees his three children sleeping, he flashes back to the day his patrol swept a village. Trained to shoot at anything that moved, he fired at a basket. When he turned it over, he found three dead babies. After being wounded and returning to the U.S. in 1969, Parker had difficulty keeping a job. In the past year, counselors have talked with him about his feelings of guilt and found him work as a security guard. Says Parker...
Writing her book, "The Radical Bourgeoisie," has taken most of her time--"all my eggs are in that basket," she says. Auspitz speaks excitedly about her findings in the work, particularly the discovery of radical activity among the French bourgeoisie in the second half of the 19th century...
...Wichita State, the University of Iowa and, since 1971, Oregon State, the Beavers have revived the too often neglected art of passing. On the floor, Oregon State works like a tightly wound clock. Each player is a whirring cog as he passes to a teammate, runs toward the basket along intricate routes, then repeats the process until, finally, the defense falters and a man breaks open for an easy shot...
Center Steve Johnson, 6 ft. 10 1/2 in., 235 lbs., is a giant dervish, spinning loose for layups or whirling to loft a hook shot. The Beavers' offense is geared to pry him free within 6 ft. of the basket. Johnson completed 71% of his field goals last year, the highest single-season average in college history. He is shooting 76% this year, pushing his career average up to 67.5%. If Johnson can maintain the pace for the rest of the season, he will pass Bill Walton (who shot 65.1 % in his three years at U.C.L.A.) as the most...
...exactly fashionable. Miller maintains that the passing game requires a player to reverse the order in which he learned to play: "The first thing a kid does when you hand him a basketball is bounce it on the floor. After a while, he starts to throw it at a basket. Last and least, he passes it to another kid. Our thinking is the other way around." Says Forward Lester Conner: "With Ralph, if you get fancy and dribble the ball...