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Spinning the Basket. The way a typical consorcio works: 80 or so would-be buyers get together, pool enough money each month to buy two cars. The group gathers at an auto showroom, where some lucky member gets one of the cars by the spin of a bingo-style basket. For him, the effect is much the same as if he had made an installment plan purchase: he takes possession of the car right away, goes on making payments into the consorcio each month thereafter...
...cotton "came in," Rich's credit department patiently lets people pay when they can, never tacks on service charges. In 1951, when Georgia's peach crop was ruined by cold weather, the store ran a full-page ad in the Atlanta Constitution. It showed an empty peach basket and noted: "Rich's understands. Rich's can wait...
...other words, that we don't put all our eggs in the offensive basket." So far, the ABM project remains alive, but it will not go into full production unless Washington fails to get Moscow's agreement to a mutual freeze on the weapon...
Trying desperately to negate Wilt's strength under-and over-the basket, Boston played "run and shoot," rushing the ball downcourt, hoping to get their shots away before Chamberlain could get set on defense. All that running merely tired the Celtics: in four of the five games, they jumped into early leads, only to run out of gas. The last game was typical. In the first quarter, the Celtics were ahead by eleven points; by half time their margin was down to five-and the final score was Philadelphia 140, Boston 116. The 76ers still had to get past...
First there was the Wilt Chamberlain Rule, designed to force him away from the basket by widening the "3-sec. zone," in which an offensive player can remain for only 3 sec. at a time. Next came the Bill Russell Rule, which forbids blocking a shot when the ball is on its downward course. Now there is the Lew Alcindor Rule. College basketball's rules makers decided last week that players may no longer "dunk" or "stuff" the ball by ramming it through the hoop from directly above...