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...25th Hour. General Westmoreland, a brilliant "book" soldier, has been learning that lesson since he reached Saigon in August. A lean, greying six-footer, "Westy" was first captain of cadets at West Point (1936), saw World War II combat in Tunisia, Sicily, at Utah Beach on Dday. During the Korean War, he led the tough 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team. A bird colonel at 30, he became the youngest major general in the Army in 1956. Max Taylor, the Army's Chief of Staff, pinned his second star on him. As superintendent of West Point, Westmoreland helped...
...Coach Jack Donahue could probably saw him in half and get two varsity guards. High school games last only 32 minutes (v. 40 minutes for a regulation college game), but Lew is averaging 31 points a game, and no less an authority than Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain,* a seven-footer of note himself, calls Alcindor "the greatest high school player I've ever seen...
...behind Lonrho's restless expansion is Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, 46, a 180-lb. six-footer who began his career as a porter in a London railway station, emigrated to Southern Rhodesia in 1948 and built a fortune from a Mercedes franchise and mineral speculation. In 1961 he traded his motor and mining assets for 30% of the stock of Lonrho, became a joint managing director with Chairman Alan Ball. Ever since, he has been flying around Africa in a twin-engine Beechcraft, persuading the established and emerging nations to do business with Lonrho, acquiring such diverse enterprises...
...turned to Jack Nicklaus. "What's it worth to you," he asked, "if I miss this putt?" Nicklaus solemnly reached into his pocket, pulled out a money clip crammed with bills, and held it out to Brewer. Brewer chuckled impishly, lined up his putt-a straight-in 15-footer-and missed. It was a fitting climax to pro golf's 1964 season, a wacky eleven months in which a reformed rake named Tony Lema won four tournaments in six incredible weeks; in which Old (35) Master Arnold Palmer won his fourth Masters and still lost the money-winning...
...Frank Cousins, 60, Minister of Technology. A hulking six-footer who began working the coal pits at 14, Cousins by 1938 was a full-time labor organizer. As boss of the 1,300,000-man Transport Union, Cousins clashed with Labor's late solidly NATO-minded Hugh Gaitskell and stubbornly called for Britain's unilateral disarmament. Cousins argued that Britain had defended itself in World War II without A-bombs. Gaits-kell's withering reply: "And the British archers won at Agincourt without machine guns." Among Cousins' new responsibilities: overseeing Britain's atomic-energy establishment...