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Harvard basketball captain-elect Jeff Hill pulled down the rebound. His quick outlet pass nestled into senior Mufi Hannemann's arms. The tall power-forward dribbled up court and proceeded to drill a bullet to "Dr. J." at the top of the key. The good doctor swooshed in the 25-foot jumper to win the tense IAB affair...
...just about everything -money, talent, ambition. As a boy, he showed a remarkable innate talent for tinkering; he built one of the first licensed "ham" stations in Texas, using an old doorbell and an auto-ignition system. His father, known as "Big Howard," had developed the first oil-drill bit that could bore through rock, thus opening vast untapped fields to exploration. "Little Howard" was only 18 when his father died, but he persuaded a Texas court to declare him to be of age. He bought out his relatives and took over the Hughes Tool Co. as sole owner...
...conditioned coliseum in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico as the Classics, Harvard's self-styled "vagabonding basketeers" took to the floor, undaunted by the murmur of a capacity crowd and the steady woosh emanating from the opposite end of the court as the Puerto Rican national team ran through a dunking drill...
Harrison tried to employ a drill in practice that Indiana coach Bobby Knight, a notorious disciplinarian, has used on his Hoosiers. The team breaks up into two lines at opposite ends of the court, and on the coach's signal, the first man in each line has to dive to the floor to pick up a loose ball. The drill was quickly abandoned in the IAB when players complained of getting hurt...
...visits restored Pound's spirits-and his obnoxiousness. He flaunted a succession of new female acquaintances in the face of his devoted wife, wrote contemptuous letters to eminent friends and spewed more antiSemitism. But he also completed two large new regions of his epic Section: Rock-Drill de los Cantares (1955) and Thrones de los Cantares...