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Last week's N.B.A. draft was a case in point. The Cleveland Cavaliers, first of the league's 17 teams to choose from this year's crop of college players, selected Austin Carr, the flashy guard from Notre Dame who averaged 38 points a game this season. Carr, said Cleveland Coach Bill Fitch, was the best "available" player in the country. Among the unavailable players was 7-ft. 2-in. Artis Gilmore of Jacksonville, who had been snatched up by the marauding Kentucky Colonels of the A.B.A. for a reported $2,600,000. Villanova's Howard...
Quick, now, basketball fans, who is the best college forward in the country? Sidney Wicks of U.C.L.A.? Well, some pro scouts insist that unpublicized Travis Grant of Kentucky State can shoot circles around Wicks. How about the best guard? Wrong again-not Austin Carr of Notre Dame. Those in the know say that Tuskegee has a ball-hawking hustler named Kendall Mayfield who has moves that make Carr look like he is standing still...
Meanwhile, the ranks of the disillusioned continue to grow. Casberry Carr, an Air Force jet-engine mechanic from Atlanta, experienced the ultimate irony. Discharged last September, with a wife and two children to support, he fruitlessly sought work. Finally he checked into the possibility of re-enlisting. He was told that it would take at least until April for him to get back...
...Another thing that worries me." Carr continued, "is the possible development of a military caste in this country. Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but all these objections make the plan seem impractical...
...also afraid that the plan is not feasible with a standing army of 3 million men," Carr added. "He should be prepared to reduce the size of the army if he wants the plan to work...