Word: foul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy voted for Benson's farm program 27 times," an angry farmer told Kennedy Aide Lem Billings. "It says so right here." And he pointed to a Humphrey brochure. Despite cries of "foul" from Governor Gaylord Nelson and Senator William Proxmire, Humphrey pressed the attack. Crowed he, pushing back from a Humphrey Family Day bean feed in Wausau's Newman High School cafeteria: "I feel like I just swallowed two tons of vitamins...
...week, a group of Senators huddled tightly around the lanky person of the human calculating machine known as Lyndon Baines Johnson. Some of them glanced up as North Carolina's jolly Sam Ervin went by. Chuckled old Judge Ervin: "That scene reminds me of something from Hamlet: 'Foul deeds will rise, though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.' " Foul or fair, the deeds done last week by the august U.S. Senate were indeed rising all over the place, and there was plenty of o'erwhelming still to come. The Southern...
...near insolent skill. But the team is so well-balanced that it has no single outstanding high scorer. As many as four men may break 20 points, yet seldom does any one individual score more than 30. If the defense sags, Cousy will hit all night from behind the foul circle. So will Fellow Guard Bill Sharman (6 ft. 1 in., 190 lbs.), who has the finest outside shot in the game (19.3-point average). If the defense presses Cousy and Sharman, the Celtics open up the center for the drives of two tough corner men: Frank Ramsey...
...time outs or waiting for foul shots, he gnaws nervously on the thumb of his right hand, looking like somebody's little brother tagging after the big boys. Standing an even 6 ft., the Philadelphia War rior's guard barely comes to the chins of some of the heron-legged stars of the National Basketball Association. But when Guy Rodgers gets his gifted hands on the ball, the game belongs...
...fine rebounder and good playmaker, Schayes leads the league in foul shooting, is respected by the pros as one of the game's greats (ten years an all-star). But fans are apt to be more impressed by the flashy feats of St. Louis' Bob Pettit or Minneapolis' Elgin Baylor. Says Syracuse's Schayes wistfully: "My ambition has always been to some day walk down the street and for someone to say, 'There goes the greatest basketball player there is.' I may play until that happens...