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...Cubans apparently have been running a genetic experimentation program designed to produce basketball players as long as some of the cigars they smoke down there. Classics center Dave Coatsworth spent much playing time trying to persuade the 7-ft. 3-in. Cuban center, Felix "All-Mellow" Morales, that he wasn't a CIA operative--so would he please be careful where he put down his size 18 shoe...
...Cubans happily surrounded Felix with two 6-ft. 11-in. mates and a slew of other flag poles hovering around 6-ft. 6-in. They weren't skinny either; the first time I saw them, I thought we were playing a bunch of shotputters...
...before any controls took effect. Similarly, Treasury Secretary G. William Miller and Anti-Inflation Adviser Alfred Kahn acknowledged in a letter to heads of 500 major corporations that some companies seem to be raising prices in anticipation of wage-price controls. Surveying the scene, New York Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn declared: "We are headed for a national bankruptcy." Said Detroit Banker Robert M. Surdam: "Scary...
...Douglas and his fourth wife Cathy, 36. Still, the book should bear out the Justice's well-earned reputation as a maverick. The work is known to contain an especially vivid and unflattering portrait of Douglas' earliest nemesis on the court, the late Felix Frankfurter. Of the current nine members of the court, Chief Justice Warren Burger gets the harshest treatment, as indeed he does in The Brethren, where he is depicted as a vain, posturing maneuverer who manipulates the court's rules to help him get his way. But others get drubbings too. Thurgood Marshall...
...across the land, the call has gone out to "do something, do anything" to slow runaway prices. Democratic Presidential Challenger Edward Kennedy continues taunting Carter to come out and debate the Massachusetts Senator's recommendation for mandatory wage and price controls. On Wall Street, respected Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn last week called for a yearlong wage and price freeze and other inflation-fighting measures to stop "a slide toward national bankruptcy." Even in normally free-spending Congress, cries went up to fight inflation by slashing budgets. A bipartisan group of 44 Senators signed a petition calling for $26 billion...