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...inhabitants of the rugged Pennsylvania mountain country around Shade Gap (pop. 140), he was known as "Bicycle Bill" because of the battered, red bike he always rode, head down, carrying one of his mongrel dogs in a handlebar basket. His real name was William Diller Hollenbaugh. Short, skinny and stooped, missing five front teeth, he had spent six of his 44 years in prison, 13 in an insane asylum. Since moving to the Shade Gap area several years ago, he had lived as a hermit in a two-room hilltop shack, subsisting on wild game and state relief checks...
...Jones was suffering from water on the knee. Center Bill Russell's right leg was so bandaged up that it looked as if he was wearing long Johns under his shorts. Forward Willie Naulls was suffering from a bad attack of the bads; he could not find the basket, which caused Coach Red Auerbach to start John Havlicek in his place. Of such accidents are great coaches made...
...friction in Washington after he temporarily cut off federal school aid to Chicago and threatened the same for other cities that had been slow to integrate. Henry's resignation was accepted effective May 1, while Keppel's lay for the time being in Johnson's In basket...
...Avant-Garde. Supermarket availability at home has helped establish another trend: Frenchmen now drink more champagne than ever, last year bought 58.2 million bottles, or three-quarters of the output. The bigger champagne producers, however, are still leary about putting all their bottles in one basket, and they continue to cultivate the export market. Britain remains the biggest foreign buyer, with 5,181,185 bottles last year, but the U.S. is a fast-growing second, with 3,478,522 bottles. French champagne makers are unworried over competition from U.S. wines. "They are our avant-garde," says Robert Jean...
...student should not have to be in dire financial need, a mental or physical basket case, 23, or an artist or musician in order to move to a quiet single room. The tensions of Harvard's academic and extra-curricular life are numerous; there are students who need a place of their own where they can step off-stage, relax, do what they want, when they want, where they want...