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...Stilt") Chamberlain, who outscored him 4,029 to 1,436, Boston's lanky Bill Rus sell (TIME, Dec. 22) still won the Na tional Basketball Association's Most Val uable Player award for his sparkling de fensive play. As if to prove that the award was no fluke, Russell held Wilt to 35 points, scored 31 himself while the Eastern Champion Celtics romped over Chamberlain's Warriors, 129-114, in the N.B.A. playoffs...
...Angeles' Samuel William Yorty, 52, is a maverick liberal turned conservative, whose close election ten months ago was considered a fluke. Politically ambitious, he has been learning his job while staying aloof from fellow Democrats, who are skeptical of his political leanings, and Republicans, who are pleased that he is a conservative. To him, "the West is still the land of opportunity," and, like most Angelenos, he was born "back East"-in Lincoln...
...were evenly matched: State Senator Henry Gonzalez, 45, a liberal Democrat, and Lawyer John Goode, 38, a conservative Republican. Beyond the battle between conservative and liberal was an even larger question: Was the election last spring of Republican John Tower to Lyndon Johnson's Senate seat just a fluke, or did it mark a G.O.P. trend in Texas politics...
...Psychologist Bruner, whose passion is perception, was born blind 46 years ago. He first saw the world at two, when cataracts were removed from his eyes; his thick glasses still make him look perpetually astonished at what he sees. A native New Yorker, Bruner got into psychology by a fluke: Duke University expelled him for cutting compulsory chapel, relented only when his psychology professor (newly arrived from Harvard) pleaded that he was too bright to fire. Bruner spent the rest of his chapel periods in the lab studying intelligence in rats, went on to a Ph.D. at Harvard, wound...
...Fastballing Dodger Pitcher Sandy Koufax, 25, who once struck out 18 batters in a single game, proved it was no fluke. Koufax fanned seven Phillies, raised his season strike-out total to 269, breaking Christy Mathewson's 58-year-old National League record. Koufax has now disposed of 952 batters in 948 innings-best strikeout record in history. > After one brief season in retirement, former Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, 71, agreed to get back in uniform for one more year and exercise his gravel-voiced strategy from one more big-league dugout. Beginning next spring, Stengel will manage...