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Anybody who stands 7 ft. l½ in. tall makes a pretty good target, and Wilt ("the Stilt") Chamberlain has taken his share of abuse from fans (who holler "goon" and "freak") and sportswriters (who call him a poor team player). Wilt's answers take up most of the space in the National Basketball Association's record book. He has scored as many as 100 points in a single night. He also has taken more shots at the basket (63), sunk more free throws (28) and collected more rebounds (55) in one game than anybody else. Last week...
...earlier witness, retired Lieut. General James Gavin, that it should hole up in selected enclaves and strike a strictly defensive stance. Kennan left no doubt (see box) that he was unhappy about "this unpromising involvement in a remote and secondary theater," an attitude that evokes distant echoes of Neville Chamberlain's dismissal of Hitler's plans to rape Czechoslovakia as "a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing...
...Electra 10, a twin-engine, all-metal, ten-passenger ship with the highest load/gross-weight ratio and the lowest price ($36,000) of any comparable aircraft of its time. The Electra 10 sold solidly to U.S. airlines as well as to carriers in Latin America and eight European countries (Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich in an Electra...
...already has both a 1965 Cadillac and a 1966 Olds Toronado, was the logical candidate, but he had an unaccountably bad night, scoring just 17 points-14 below his average. With Robertson's modest defection, there seemed to be no way to keep Philadelphia's Wilt Chamberlain from winning the Ford-although he needed it less than anybody else, since he owns a $24,000 Bentley-and can't get into a Volkswagen. At 7 ft. 2 in., Chamberlain was just too tall and talented to avoid scoring 21 points. Auerbach finally got lucky when, with...
Smith responded by shooting every time he got his hands on the ball. "Say, Smitty," Chamberlain whispered to him jokingly, "you're making it awfully tough for me to win that award." Smith smiled and kept shooting. By game's end, he had scored 24 points, and everybody heaved a sigh of relief when N.B.A. President Walter Kennedy handed him the keys to the Ford. All Smith had at home was a 1965 Thunderbird...