Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest basketball team ever? Jerry West and Cousy at the guards. Elgin Baylor and Bob Pettit at the forwards and Russell at center with Havlicek coming off the bench...
Hardly. Each mayor figures that he really is making a difference. Ted Crozier has shaken up the police department; he has even got his 92-man police force to jog it self into shape. Richard Verbic of Elgin, Ill., a dentist, boasts of completing an other kind of bridge - a $1.2 million span over the Fox River, which the town needed for 20 years. Richard Baker is proud of having brought the Little League World Series to Newark for the third year running; no other town in the country can match that claim. Don Quaintance thinks he might like...
Quizmaster-Elgin Scheft...
...gold and silver, ivory and jade. Restored and main tamed by a crew of 1,000, it makes Versailles look like a nouveau riche country mansion. In the hills northwest of the city is the Summer Palace, which was largely destroyed hi 1860 by Britain's Lord Elgin, son of the seigneur who took the marbles from the Parthenon. Rebuilt hi 1888 by the dotty Dowager Empress Tz'u Hsi, diverting funds allotted for naval construction, the imperial plaisanterie occupies 700 acres and attracts huge numbers of Chinese rubbernecks. And then there are the Ming Tombs...
Welcome to the world of big business, realizes the kid who thought Elgin Baylor and the Big O would always be there for his personal enjoyment. And for that matter, welcome to the 1978-79 edition of the NBA. Watch your step...