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Their best guard, Jerry West, is accident prone. Their best forward, Elgin Baylor, is a 33-year-old with two bad knees. Their coach, Bill van Breda Kolff, is a first-year man who learned his trade in the Ivy League. Yet, after losing 22 of their first 44 games this year, they have won 38 out of 47. Two weeks ago, they swept four in a row from the San Francisco Warriors to capture the National Basketball Association's Western Division playoffs. And this week they will be trying to turn a minor miracle into a major...
...West and Baylor sparked the L.A. attack with 35 and 23 points respectively. Boston ace John Havlicek scored 24 before the home crowd to lead the Celtics...
...Angeles Lakers, led by Jerry West and Elgin Baylor, overpowered the Boston Celtics 123-113 to even the best of seven series for the National Basketball Association Champioinship...
...some researchers have achieved experimental results that seem to prove statistically that learning, or memory, can indeed be transferred by injecting the brain extract of one animal into the brain of another. But since the tests were difficult to duplicate, the results could never be properly validated. Now a Baylor University scientist, writing in Nature, has reported an experiment that could help resolve the controversy...
...accept federal research grants. The reason is not simply, as President Wilkinson argues, that "the research we give is worth every cent we get," but also that the grants help him attract competent scholars to strengthen a generally mediocre faculty. Even Baptist opposition is softening. Such Baptist schools as Baylor, Wake Forest and Mercer have risked the ire of some church officials by accepting aid. Says M. Norvel Young, president of Los Angeles' Pepperdine College, a wavering holdout: "We'd like to paddle our own canoe as long as it's feasible...