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...most commanding figure in all of pro sport, Wilton Norman Chamberlain, 29, just naturally has been discussed by physiologists, analyzed by psychologists, investigated by the Internal Revenue Service, and interviewed by newsmen, by his count, "more than 5,000" times. The body of literature devoted to his life and exploits runs to perhaps 2,000,000 words of prose and 200 of poetry, chock-full of such fascinating revelations as that he sleeps naked, trims his beard with fingernail scissors, has an IQ of 127 and hates the nickname "Wilt the Stilt." No one has seemed able to agree...
...76ers trailed at half-time in their game against Baltimore, but outscored the Bullets 38-16 in the third period behind Wilt Chamberlain and Hal Greer. At one point Philadelphia, behind 72-56, scored an incredible 24 points in a row to go ahead 80-71. Chamberlain and Greer each wound up with 24 points for the game...
...Chamberlain, most valuable player of the season in the N.B.A., shouted during the victory celebration in the '76ers dressing room, "I want the big title. This is just a down payment on the big one." Commenting on the game. Wilt said, "I don't think of the win personally. All it does it put about $3000 in my rocket...
...diminished by quite a few decibels, Vice President Hubert Humphrey's voice still rang out loud and clear in defense of the American stand. In a speech before Washington's National Press Club, Humphrey observed that "the war in Viet Nam is far more than Neville Chamberlain's 'quarrel in a remote country among people of whom we know nothing' "-an allusion to the British Prime Minister's celebrated remark about Hitler's planned invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...which they have been doing all season with such regularity that last week they trailed the World Champion Boston Celtics by only i game. With Wilt averaging 34.6 points and 24 rebounds a game, getting plenty of help from the likes of Hal Greer, Chet Walker and Bill Cunningham, Chamberlain may yet have the ultimate reply for his critics: an N.B.A. championship...