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...sentiments, exactly, of the players in last week's National Basketball Association All-Star game. To begin with, there was never any question about who would win, because all the big stars-Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson-were on one side. The East had already won the game three years in a row, and had no trouble making it four straight, 137-94. But if the game itself was a bore, the game within the game was fascinating because, for the first time, N.B.A. officials had decided to give something of value to the night's most...
Roaring into Monticello, N.Y., in his custom-made lavender Bentley for a benefit basketball game, Wilt ("the Stilt") Chamberlain, 29, announced that he had brooded it over and would not, after all, accept $250,000 from boxing promoters to become the world's highest pug (7 ft. 1% in.). Instead, he will accept a $55,000 annual raise, to $125,000, to remain the world's highest-salaried basketball player. After he signed his new three-year contract with the Philadelphia 76ers, Wilt thought of a good friend and bitter rival, the 6-ft. 10-in. pillar...
...Theater Director Peter Hall, 34, has decided to stage it at London's Covent Garden. First off, Sheena the camel smashed one set in rehearsal, put her foot through another, had to be dropped from the cast. That left the donkeys, etc. Then the censors in the Lord Chamberlain's office warned against indecencies of dance and dress. The naked are "more and more clothed," and Director Hall is treading gingerly. Said he: "We shall do the orgy as tactfully as possible. I don't want to direct the first dirty opera...
...plaster Woman in a Restaurant Booth. Giacometti came, stared at Mark di Suvero's jumble of wood beams titled Champion, and exclaimed, "That frightens me!" At the vernissage, César, France's leading sculptor of crushed cars, cast an evil eye on his U.S. competitor, John Chamberlain, but hailed the rest: "We feel much more affinity with America than with the School of Paris...
...American Conservative Union sets itself a proselytizing mission, to develop and articulate the conservative position on major issues. William Buckley, John Chamberlain, Lewis Strauss and Arthur Radford are among the leading members. It resembles the new Goldwater group. But A.C.U. Chairman Donald Bruce says: "We're not being swallowed by anybody...