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...cornerman, Havlicek has often been called "the best sixth man in basketball." His greatest value has been his ability to come in cold from the bench and salt away a game with a dozen quick points. He finally broke into the starting lineup against the Cincinnati Royals, with the Celtics trailing two games to one in the best-of-five semifinal playoffs. In the next two games he scored 41 points and sparked Boston to victory. Against Philadelphia in the finals, he scored 127 points, as Boston won the best-of-seven series four games to one. Chamberlain...
...Lyndon Johnson's favorite anecdotes concerns the Texas judge who is informed by a friend that a legislative committee has voted to abolish his bench. "Who testified against me?" demands the judge. "Well," says his friend, "there was Banker Jones." "He's usurious," snaps the magistrate. "He cheats little ol' ladies out of their life savings. Who else?" The acquaintance lists all the other witnesses, and with growing rage the judge denounces each as a scoundrel or worse. Finally the friend confesses that he has been kidding, that the committee in fact has rejected the bill...
...creature walking onstage at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall looks like one-third each of Woody Allen, Charlie Chaplin and a sparrow. He bobs to the audience, weaves around the piano, pecks the air with his beak, hovers over the piano bench, then alights. "I don't know whether to laugh or cry," mutters an onlooker to her companion. A moment later she knows: when Vladimir Ashkenazy plays, nobody laughs and everybody cries. They cry real tears sometimes, but mostly they cry "Bravo!" and "Encore...
...louvered rear window that opens to let in air, closes to keep weather out. American Motors' AMX Dream Car uses a cantilevered roof to do away with corner posts, boasts 240° visibility, and makes a stab at bringing back the old rumble seat with a back bench that uses the swing-up rear window as a windscreen. With busy businessmen in mind, Chrysler turned its 1966 Imperial Crown coupe into an experimental Mobile Executive car by installing a front passenger seat that swivels around for conferences, a folding table and typewriter for paperwork, a dictating machine...
...They Kill You." As for the American League, Casey Stengel would hardly recognize his old New York Yankees. At 34, and $100,000 per, Mickey Mantle was warming the bench and lifting sandbags to strengthen the right shoulder which was operated on for removal of a bone chip last winter. The Yanks' new centerfielder was Roy White, a 22-year-old rookie who has never played anything but second base before, Whitey Ford's sore arm was nowhere near as sore as his head-after he pitched seven innings against the Mets' Jacksonville farm club and gave...