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Once he has created a reasonably cooperative atmosphere, Usery gets down to business. "He's got an uncanny ability to grasp the issues," marvels Chuck Chamberlain, head of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signal men. "He knows when one side is ready to make a concession." Usery also resorts to mild trickery to push for progress. He will, for instance, separate labor and management, telling each group that he will try for a modification in the other's position. Then he will retire alone to his room, letting each side stew-and work on modifications...
Here was the old success story, notwithstanding a good measure of social irony: Horatio Alger reincarnated in a tall but otherwise physically mediocre, white boy from Crystal City, Missouri, triumphs in a black, city game played by the likes of Wilt Chamberlain. The religio-scientific devotion of the American athletic dream dug in and hurled the banker's son into collegiate, international, and eventually professional stardom. Bill Bradley knew where he was, and his stature was reaffirmed by approving nods from righteous heads across the country...
...Royce and the clothes his father would envy. Like Bradley, they are all past their peaks: not necessarily their peaks of efficiency for a pro team, but for their individual dreams of fulfillment. The pervading note is failure. It carries into the more impersonal analyses of figures like Wilt Chamberlain and Bob Cousy. Chamberlain, he says, is the paradigmatic loser; his individual achievement was more secure on a losing team, so his true wish was fulfilled. He portrays Cousy, his childhood hero heroically entering a game in 1969 to replace Oscar Robertson--and then throwing the ball away and losing...
...idiosyncrasies. His appointment gives us, at long last, a spokesman of courage and conviction. His forthright manner was bound to disturb the U.N. I suggest that some Churchillian growls of support from Britain's representative would have been more appropriate than the petulant laments of a piqued neo-Chamberlain...
...contrast to Fanelli, Chamberlain said that, "No large number of strongly qualified women are being turned down...