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...freak") and sportswriters (who call him a poor team player). Wilt's answers take up most of the space in the National Basketball Association's record book. He has scored as many as 100 points in a single night. He also has taken more shots at the basket (63), sunk more free throws (28) and collected more rebounds (55) in one game than anybody else. Last week against the Detroit Pistons, Wilt got the record he wanted most of all. Playing in his 523rd game, Chamberlain sank a free throw for the 20,881st point of his career...
...labor. Yet the public atti tude toward deficits has changed from one of outright dis approval to resignation. So long as the deficit grows no faster than the nation's wealth or population, few people complain nowadays that the Government is going to hell in a hand basket. In fact, the national debt has declined in a real sense...
Some of the new owners already have interests in other sports: the Pittsburgh franchise goes to a syndicate that includes Jerry Wolman, owner of pro football's Philadelphia Eagles, and the Los Angeles franchise was won by Jack Kent Cooke, who also owns pro basket ball's Los Angeles Lakers. For the privilege of playing in their league, each of the new owners must pay $2,000,000 to the old owners. And there are certain incidental expenses. Take the case of St. Louis, where the only ice arena in town belongs to James D. Norris, the onetime...
...from the colossal marble Caesars of Rome than from the subtler Orient. It was also in this Eurasian melting pot that Buddha acquired his characteristic togalike robe, borrowed from Rome. Likewise Hercules (opposite) holds the hero's traditional club, but his head is crowned with Serapis' sacred basket of mysteries, symbolizing the Nile's fertility...
Bradley recalls with a slightly pained laugh that the WBZ music committee "threw 'She Loves You' in the waste basket" in June...