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...Negro star of the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Lakers, scored 15 points against the hapless New York Knicks. At half time, he had 34. By the third quarter he was up to 47, and even the most jaded fan hidden back in the smoky blue haze of Madison Square Garden was screaming like a teenager. In the fourth quarter, with teammates feeding him passes until he was arm-weary from shooting, Baylor sank 24 more points to put a rousing finish on the most spectacular scoring spree in pro basketball history. Baylor's 71 points totally...
...sheds light on the political depths. Possibly, if political issues and aims are not to be truly probed-something not easily done behind footlights-it is just as well they stay general and simple. But in Advise they not only lack thematic point, they even throw a certain haze over the plot...
...quite unlike his unextroverted personal life. The Tricky Dick legend obscures Nixon's private scrupulousness, which leads him to turn over to charitable organizations every cent of the thousands of dollars he has earned for paid speaking engagements during his years as Vice President. The Tricky Dick haze has also obscured Nixon's public philosophy. A persistent liberal accusation against him is that he is "innocent of doctrine," that he has "no ideas, only methods." But over the years Nixon has built up a consistent record on public issues...
Dishing It Out. Delegates wove their way down packed aisles to shout their arguments from the tribune in a haze of floodlit smoke. "If the two mad groups of the world want to have a go at each other," roared Cousins, "we want no part of it. We talk of having friendship with Russia-and then we threaten them with the bomb." The boilermakers' delegate said it with metaphors mixed: "America and Russia are like two grizzly bears trying to get at each other. Let us pull out of this bear garden. Let us act as mediators between these...
...last year, France's inability to solve the Algerian situation has emerged as brutal reality through a haze of good intentions. No government could make the concessions the FLN demands and remain in power; no premier temperamentally prepared to make these concessions could have ascended to power...