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...basketball's national championship. Another stirring finish last week carried Louisville over Duke, 72-69, by the caprice in the fading seconds of a Cardinal shot so badly missed that only another Louisville man was in a position to jump for the ball: 6-ft. 9-in. Freshman Pervis Ellison...
...wiry as a mouth full of braces, three days shy of 19, Ellison instantly followed the shot into the basket and before long followed the basket to the foul line. Two calm free throws topped off his 25-point performance, good for the Most Valuable Player trophy, and the Cardinals' second title of the '80s. "What's the MVP," Ellison asked beautifully, "when you've got the national championship?" Not since the '50s and Bill Mlkvy, Temple's renowned "Owl-Without-a-Vowel," has basketball identified a hero as charmingly as "Never Nervous" Pervis. At the same time, not since...
...others were commander Richard Scobee, pilot Michael Smith, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair and Gregory Jarvis...
...became an instant hero to both Hawaiians and Japanese Americans last January as the first member of either group to fly in space. Ellison Onizuka was a mission specialist on last year's classified military flight of Discovery, but he was perhaps most appreciated among colleagues for his gentle, unassuming manner. Describing one of the tasks he was to perform on Challenger, to film Halley's comet with a hand-held camera, he remarked with typical understatement, "I'll be looking at Halley's comet. They tell me I'll have one of the best views around...
After last week's tragedy, his 72-year-old mother Matsue Onizuka wistfully recalled her son's dream. "Ellison always had it in his mind to become an astronaut but was too embarrassed to tell anyone," she said. "When he was growing up, there were no Asian astronauts, no black astronauts, just white ones. His dream seemed too big." One dream was to continue traveling in space as long as he could. "There's no age cutoff for astronauts," he used...