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Interior Secretary Stu Udall scored a fine public-relations point at a professional basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Cincinnati Royals. Learning that the mother of Elgin ("The Rabbit") Baylor, the Lakers' 6-ft. 5-in. Negro star, worked as an Interior Department Mimeograph operator, Udall picked up the Baylor family in his official Cadillac and took them to the game. During intermission, Udall, who was once a star basketballer himself, tried a trial shot and missed...
...both in the N.B.A. and among the amateurs, is to find the player who combines all the talents required by the modern game: scoring, playmaking, rebounding and defending. In the N.B.A.'s 1961 season, no player comes closer to fulfilling that ideal of the complete courtman than the Cincinnati Royals' Oscar Robertson, 22, a lithe (6 ft. 4½ in.. 200 lbs.) Negro guard who was famed in college, as he is in the N.B.A...
Pure Product. In almost every way, Cincinnati's Robertson is a pure product of the sport of basketball as it has developed in, the U.S. The game was invented in 1891 in Springfield, Mass, by a gym instructor named Jim Naismith, who wanted to give his bored classes a switch from the daily grind of calisthenics. Today basketball is played with eager enthusiasm and improving skill by some 50 nations from Chile to China, but it has remained a distinctly American game. Its virtues are obvious : any number can play, indoors or out, in all seasons. It requires nothing...
Professional Basketball (NBC, 2-4:30 p.m.). Cincinnati v. St. Louis...
...when the disease attacks again. Hostilities promptly broke out within the council of war itself, mainly over the relative merits of the Salk injected and the Sabin oral vaccines. The chief antagonists were the National Foundation's crusty perennial chairman, Basil O'Connor, and the University of Cincinnati's inventive, acidulous Dr. Albert B. Sabin...