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...unimaginably little, childlike and blameless. For a moment, so did college basketball, which is saying something. These days, a coach or recruiter is considered honest if he has never stolen a stove that's still hot. Then, in one hug last week, there was redemption. The losing coach, Georgetown's mountainous Thompson, wrapped his arms nearly twice around Brown, the Georgetown player who had just thrown a pass and the championship away. As if Brown were on a ledge, Thompson held him tenderly beside the court, while joyful North Carolina players and Gentleman Coach Dean Smith snipped...
Another dark side of the sport this year has been the unkindness shown Georgetown's 7-ft. freshman center, Patrick Ewing, including a death threat. Although Ralph Sampson of Virginia is two years older and 4 in. taller, Ewing is the awesome figure in college basketball now. He figures to play Bill Russell to Sampson's Wilt Chamberlain in pro seasons ahead. But for the present, Ewing has been a focus of cynicism. Records have been broken this year for cruelty in the stands, and the normal expression on Ewing's face has been a bolt...
Nafez Nazzal is a Palestinian who became a U.S. citizen and earned a Ph.D. in history from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. A part-time reporter for TIME since 1977, he lives in the town of El-Bireh with his wife and two sons. His account of what life was like for one Palestinian on the West Bank last week...
...incursions. He had three teen-age children, and their travail touched him deeply. But Nixon's favor depended on one's readiness to fall in with the paranoid cult of the tough guy. The conspiracy of the press, the hostility of the Establishment, the flatulence of the Georgetown set were permanent features of Nixon's conversation, which one challenged at the cost of exclusion from the inner circle...
West regional; Georgetown...