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Rusk seems incapable of viewing a situation empirically. Not only does he insist on transposing the "eternal truths" of Munich onto the conflict in Vietnam, but he refuses to question his interpretation of Chamberlain's failure. For example, Rusk claims that it was "necessary" for President Kennedy to "inform Mr. Khrushchev that the United States would not yield to an ultimatum concerning Berlin" in 1962, just as England should have demonstrated that it would not yield to the German ultimatum over Czechoslovakia in 1938. If Khrushchev had not believed that ultimatum, according to Rusk, "there would have been...
...main bunch of runners had disappeared before launching herself onto the course. To disguise her sex, she wore a hooded blue sweatshirt, but when that got too warm, she peeled down to a black swimsuit and Bermuda shorts. For a good portion of the race, she jogged alongside Alton Chamberlain of New York, who said afterward: "She didn't look half as bad as some...
...that he is a Negro is enough to ensure that Bill Russell will be a controversial coach. Russell would be controversial in any color. Often arrogant, usually angry, always outspoken, he is a born boat rocker-"all hung up," in the words of his close friend and archrival, Wilt Chamberlain. He named his four-year-old daughter Kenyatta after Jomo Kenyatta, the onetime Mau Mau leader and current President of Kenya. He has called pro basketball "a child's game," insisted that "it isn't incumbent upon me to set a good example for anybody's kids...
...Bedeviled by injuries, belittled by sportswriters, the perennial champions (seven straight years) of the National Basketball Association walloped the Philadelphia 76ers in the finals of the Eastern Division playoffs, thereby winning the right to meet the Los Angeles Lakers for the N.B.A. title, and demonstrating once again that Wilt Chamberlain is not the best basketball team in the world...
...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's problem just might have been an accumulation of rust. With the 76ers trailing the Celtics 2-1, Philadelphia Coach Dolph Schayes announced that there would be a practice session next day. "No, Dolph," said Wilt. "I'm tired...