Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specialties, but at this summer's Ravinia Festival, she has been conducting all manner of choral works-Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust, Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder, and this past weekend a potpourri of Lerner and Loewe. Although Hillis is also music director of the nearby Elgin Symphony Orchestra, she might be called an unsung heroine: her principal job is to ready her chorus for other maestros. She founded her group 19 years ago at Fritz Reiner's invitation. Today the Hillis sound-vibrant, precise, enormous-has become an indispensable element of the famed Solti sound...
Sanders was one of the greatest defensive cagers ever to play the game, in a long career with the championship Boston Celtics teams. Sanders was regularly given the task of guarding the Elgin Baylors of opposing teams, and he symbolized more than any other player the kind of hardnosed, aggressive defense that was characteristic of Celtic teams...
...until the second quarter, made just one shot in four attempts and collected only three rebounds. This from a man who, in the seventh game of the 1970 NBA finals, dashed the Lakers' championship hopes by banging in 18 points and ripping down 17 rebounds against the likes of Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain...
...standard defense for smuggling is the Elgin Marbles ploy: if Lord Elgin had not "rescued" the Parthenon sculptures from the Turks in Athens, they would probably no longer exist. The British Museum was built on the Empire's plunder. Napoleon had no qualms about ransacking Egypt for the Louvre. Likewise, since the Latin Americans or Italians "cannot look after" their own archaeological wealth, it is the collectors who preserve it by extracting it from their hands...
...Gatto. 18. Joe Don Looney. 19. One point. 20. 12 degrees. 21. Jim Marshall. 22. Jerry West. Oscar Robertson, Elgin Baylor, Bob Petit and Bill Russell, 23. Jerry West. Oscar Robertson, Elgie Baylor, Bill Russell and Dave De Bussehere. Each man named himself to the team. 24. Hot Rod Hundley, West Virginia. Fred Schaus. 25. The New York Knicqs. which selected Bill Bradley and Dave Stallworth, and the San Francisco Warriors which picked Walt Hazard and Rick Berry. 26. Darryl Imhoff. 27. Darryl Imhoff. 28. He competed only in basketball and not the high jump. 29. The Boston Celtics...