Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interests as "industrial spying." The Swiss stake, nonetheless, is growing. Nestle has increased its holding in Libby, Mc-Neill & Libby (food canning) from 20% to 35%. Alusuisse is building a $63 million aluminum-processing plant at Lake Charles, La., and Swiss watchmakers are buying heavily into Waltham, Elgin and other U.S. companies...
...partner, so he traded Wilt to the Los Angeles Lakers, whose owner Jack Kent Cooke did not need a partner either. What Cooke needs is an N.B.A. Championship, so he offered Wilt a five-year contract totaling an estimated $1,500,000. Cooke now owns three superstars: Elgin Baylor, Jerry West and Chamberlain, and the problem may be to get three balls into the game so they can all shoot at once...
...Celtics' final victory was as complete as it was effortless: the old pros beat the young pretenders at their own game. A fast-breaking team that depends heavily on the accurate shooting of its "hot hands," Elgin Baylor and Jerry West, the Lakers were both outrun and outshot. Baylor scored 28 points and West accounted for 22, but Boston's Havlicek dropped in 40 and Howell hit for 30. The Celtics opened up a 70-50 half-time lead, and after that the Lakers never really came close. One big reason: 6-ft. 10-in. Center Russell...
Their best guard, Jerry West, is accident prone. Their best forward, Elgin Baylor, is a 33-year-old with two bad knees. Their coach, Bill van Breda Kolff, is a first-year man who learned his trade in the Ivy League. Yet, after losing 22 of their first 44 games this year, they have won 38 out of 47. Two weeks ago, they swept four in a row from the San Francisco Warriors to capture the National Basketball Association's Western Division playoffs. And this week they will be trying to turn a minor miracle into a major...
...games-to-one lead, bouncing back to win the Eastern Division Playoffs. Pro basketball is a game of momentum, and the Celtics-tired and aging as they may be-have plenty of that. But then so do the Lakers, plus two of pro basketball's deadliest shooters in Elgin Baylor and Jerry West...