Word: chamberlaine
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...many a driver of 150-m.p.h. racers keeps a go kart in his backyard, insists that the wide-tread width (two-thirds of the wheelbase) makes the kart safer than most bigger machines. Top sports-car men who get a kick out of go karts include John Fitch, Jay Chamberlain and Dan Gurney, despite the fact that one knocked him down last year in the Bahamas and broke his ankle. And in Britain, Stirling Moss, the finest driver of them all, is a partner in one of the 50-odd British companies that are hurrying to turn out equipment...
...step known as "the Jackie Gleason" (a broad parody of Gleason's away-we-go shuffle). When a pattern is finished, he may call: "Erase it," i.e., repeat the pattern in reverse. The variations often have a sports flavor, as in "the Wilt Chamberlain Hook," in which the dancer suddenly goes stiff-legged and completes his shuffle with a Chamberlain-style hook shot. Baltimore devotees like "the Unitas," in which the dancer shuffles around with arm cocked as if to forward pass. Another local variation known as "Go to the Welfare" has the dancer advancing with hand extended, palm...
...Complaining that the pros play too rough, Philadelphia's Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain blurted out that he was retiring from the N.B.A. at the tender age of 23. Plainly exhausted by the season's grind, Wilt was also disheartened by his team's loss in the Eastern Division playoffs to the champion Boston Celtics. Once rested, Chamberlain will likely decide to console himself with a $100,000 salary offered by Philadelphia. Scoffed Boston's famed Bob Cousy: "Standing 6 ft. i in., it is difficult for me to feel sorry for a man 7 ft. tall...
...time, Africa-instead of what is now Israel-might have become the homeland of the Jews. When Czarist pogroms drove hundreds of thousands of Jews out of Russia before World War I, Britain's Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain drew up a grant of 5,000 sq. mi., in what is now Kenya's white highlands, to serve as a Zionist refuge until the Holy Land should be opened to them. But a Zionist commission inspecting this temporary Promised Land took fright after being nearly crushed by stampeding elephants, surrounded by Masai warriors, and rendered sleepless by roaring lions...
...basketball season ended, Philadelphia's Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, 23, in his rookie year had decisively rewritten the N.B.A. record books. Among his new marks: 2,707 points and an average of 37.6 points per game (the old records: 2,105 and 29.2, both set by St. Louis' Bob Pettit), and 1,941 rebounds (old record: 1,612, set by Boston's Bill Russell...