Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...speed and agility to be a marvel were he half a foot shorter. St. Louis' Bob Pettit (6 ft. 9 in.) is quick and graceful, Boston's Bill Russell (6 ft. 10 in.) is a defensive and rebounding genius, Los Angeles' Elgin Baylor (6 ft. 5 in.) combines the brute strength of a pro football tackle with the supple coordination of an Olympic gymnast, and even at the advanced age of 32 Boston's Bob Cousy (dwarfish at 6 ft. 1 in.) remains the playmaking wizard of the game...
...Elgin, assistant Director of Admissions at Princeton, attributed Princeton's ten per cent decrease to the smaller size of this year's high school senior classes across the nation...
...indeed. When the game began, Robertson looked like the most seasoned pro on the floor. He kept star teammates such as Los Angeles' Elgin Baylor and St. Louis' Bob Pettit running at top speed with a series of pinpointed passes that set up easy baskets. In the very first period, Robertson himself scored 13 points-hitting on all five of his shots from the floor -to lead the West to a 47-19 lead that made inevitable his team's final victory...
SYRACUSE, N.Y., Jan. 14--Elgin Baylor hustled out of a sick bed and, helped by Oscar Robertson, Bob Pettit and Clyde Lovellette, led a first quarter drive tonight that carried an underdog West team to a record-breaking 153-131 victory over the East in the National Basketball Association All-Star game...