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...lonesome, soul-sad music, full of cries and gospel wails, punctuated by a heavy, regular beat. With the migration to the industrial North after World War II, the beat was intensified with electric guitars, bass and drums, and the great blues merchants, like Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker and Chuck Berry, made their first recordings...
Even that might not work. A nifty hooker and a delicate outside shooter, Alcindor is so fast, scrappy and versatile that Power Coach Jack Donahue could probably saw him in half and get two varsity guards. High school games last only 32 minutes (v. 40 minutes for a regulation college game), but Lew is averaging 31 points a game, and no less an authority than Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain,* a seven-footer of note himself, calls Alcindor "the greatest high school player I've ever seen...
...Estaing plumped for a basic change in the system of monetary reserves that helps to bankroll world trade. He proposed that the leading industrial countries create a vague new international currency, based on gold, that would gradually replace the current reserve mix of dollars, sterling and gold. The hooker in this return to a universal gold standard is that it would greatly enhance the power of France, which has plenty of gold reserves, but weaken the U.S. and Britain, which are currently embarrassed by a shortage of enough gold to fill all their needs. Tokyo's financial press sniffed...
...wise mother who calls her five-year-old daughter's artificial hand "the hooker," and wants the child to accept it as that. See MEDICINE, Giving Hope...
...that other similarly handicapped children are also learning to cope. Parents attend the sessions and are encouraged to talk out their problems with one another. As a result, most have found the emotional strength to face up to their children's problems. "We call her hand 'the-hooker,' " explains the young mother of a pert five-year-old girl who was born without a left forearm, "because that is what the kids will call it, and she'll be used to it by then...