Word: duke
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Tonight top-ranked Cincinnati, gunning for its third straight NCAA crown, meets surprising Oregon State, while Duke and Chicago Loyola lock horns for the privilege of meeting the Bearcats in the finals tomorrow...
...Duke has perhaps the best shooting team in the nation. Four members of its first five hit for better than 50 percent from the floor this season; their fifth man, Art Heyman, is probably the best player in college basketball today. The great shooting of Heyman (25.3 points per game) and Jeff Mullins, coupled with the height of Hank Tison and Jay Buckley (both 6 ft. 10 in.) make the Blue Devils look invincible on paper. They're not. Although they sport a 20-game winning streak, Duke has a sometimes shoddy defense and a rather ineffectual set of multiple...
...fire Walter Alston. Compounding the confusion at Chavez Ravine is the presence of ex-manager Leo Durocher and future-manager Pete Reiser. So much for management; on the labor side there are not enough outfield jobs to keep Tom Davis, Willie Davis, Frank Howard, Ron Fairly, Wally Moon, Duke Snider (enjoying another fine spring) and Lee Walls working happily. The unemployment problem is embodied in the case of Moon, a real star who appeared in only 95 games last year, could not hit stride, and wound up with a .242 mark...
Mary B. Newman, Cambridge state representative, claimed in a recent news-letter that her removal from the Massachusetts Committee on Labor and Industries was an act of retribution by House Speaker John F. ("Iron Duke") Thompson...
...boss of the teeming 24th Ward, on Chicago's West Side. He was the ward's first Negro alderman. He wore $200 suits, and his friends called him "Duke." He held real estate valued at more than $100,000. He had just leased a shiny new political headquarters, with autographed photos of people like John F. Kennedy on the wall. That was how it was with Benjamin F. Lewis, 53. Everything was going his way. Last week he was re-elected as alderman by a pretty decisive margin-12,189 to 888. It almost seemed as though...