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...Daniel Schreiber, 51, who showed that demoralized, bored Manhattan slum pupils eagerly looked toward higher educational horizons when and if they got the chance (TIME, Oct. 12, 1959). Said Schreiber, who now leaves his job as head of New York's "Higher Horizons" program: "These are the future goon squads for any subversive willing to pay them...
Five weeks ago, the pro-Lumumba troops and goon squads in Kivu went on a drunken rampage, seeking revenge for Lumumba's death. One 75-year-old nun was thrown from a truck, and while she lay in the dust, with both arms and her pelvis broken, was' raped by eleven soldiers. An American missionary girl was held prisoner for days and raped four times. One of the biggest laughs was to rip the clothes off white women and force them to dance about on sharp gravel, chanting such phrases as "I murdered Lumumba, the Christ...
Brilliant as Lucas is on the court, Ohio State is no one-man team. As a squad, it epitomizes the current trend in basketball away from the spindle-shanked hotshot and the gawky goon, toward towering, robust and superbly coordinated players who can run at top speed all night. Says New York University's Basketball Coach Lou Rossini: "Every man on that first five has a shot-a good shot-at making the pros...
...Gone Goon. Basketball's offensive revolution has sent scores skyrocketing, until it now requires an average of 122 points to win an N.B.A. game. As the game has changed, so have the players. Teams once depended on three or four scorers; now every man on the floor can go over 20 points a game, the old yardstick of success. Says Los Angeles Lakers' Coach Fred Schaus, himself a pro only a few years ago: "It's incredible, but it's true that today's N.B.A. man, an average man, would have been a great star...
Gone is the day of the glandular goon who could do little more than stand beneath the basket and stuff in rebounds. Philadelphia's Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, who leads the N.B.A. in scoring with an average 37.8, stands 7 ft. 2 in., but has the speed and agility to be a marvel were he half a foot shorter. St. Louis' Bob Pettit (6 ft. 9 in.) is quick and graceful, Boston's Bill Russell (6 ft. 10 in.) is a defensive and rebounding genius, Los Angeles' Elgin Baylor (6 ft. 5 in.) combines the brute...