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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BORN: Jan. 8, 1902. ORIGIN: Cossack from Ural region. PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS: Height, 5 ft. 7 in.; weight, 250 Ibs. FAMILY STATUS: Married to an actress, his second wife; two children...
Percentage Player. Unlike most of basketball's angular skyscrapers, who have trouble getting out of their own way, Dukes is both agile and graceful. He does not depend on height alone. Against another tall man, Dukes's sleight-of-hand artistry-he shoots equally well with both hands-often feints the defensive man completely out of position. As a defensive "rebounder," i.e., grabbing the ball off the backboards. Dukes takes advantage of both his height and cat-quick reflexes...
...Lions also had height, speed, a tight defense, a discouraging accuracy from the foul line, and an endless bench Saturday night at the Blockhouse as they defeated the varsity basketball team...
Keeping up with the Joneses, or the Ivanovs, is just as difficult in Soviet Russia as it is elsewhere; the difference is that in Russia your life may depend upon it. Before 1949, it was the height of intellectual fashion in the U.S.S.R. to praise an economic treatise written by one Nikolai A. Voznesensky. He won a Stalin Prize for it. Voznesensky was a favorite of Stalin's favorite Zhdanov, the smartest young economist on the Red horizon, Vice Premier at 42, and the Politburo's chief wartime planner...
...concussion, and all four spent a dreadful, storm-whipped night in tiny tents. Going down the next morning, they lost their way. By then, both Herzog's and Lachenal's feet were frostbitten, and Herzog's hands were useless. That night, still at a mankilling height of more than 23,000 ft., they slept in a crevasse. The next day an avalanche smashed over them and threw Herzog 500 ft. By the time rescuers got to him, Herzog's hands were strips of flesh, and both he and Lachenal were close to madness...