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...lithe, well-muscled young man took a pass in the corner of the court and whirled for a jump shot. A Detroit Pistons defender bumped him heavily with his hip. Tipped sideways in midair, Bob Pettit shot anyway. The ball swished cleanly through the hoop, and the St. Louis Hawks went on to a 104-100 victory. In the stands at Detroit's Olympia Stadium, a basketball-wise visitor, the Minneapolis Lakers' Coach John Kundla, shook his head in admiration. "I've been in this league twelve years," he said, "and I coached George Mikan...
...HULA HOOP has faded so fast that a Corpus Christi, Texas dealer is offering 10? to any customer who will take one away...
Despite the varsity's fine showing off the backboards, which resulted in a 46-36 rebounding advantage, Brown was able to throw enough shots in the hoop to offset this superiority...
Though there are some eddies of eccentricity among a few designers, e.g., evening dresses with a "hula hoop'' motif, all the big houses have done their best to please the women who last year looked boxy and sexless in sack dresses-and complained about it so loudly that the new trend in bathing suits is the Italian bikini...
...graceful and cunning as a cougar, Elgin Baylor begins to roam for the Minneapolis Lakers. His hands flicker with the slick skill of a shell-game operator. His dribble is a rapid rat-a-tattoo inches off the floor. Smoothly, surely, Baylor prowls through the elbowing surge under the hoop to nail a Laker with a pinpoint pass, or rises from the floor as though projected to loop a lazy shot through the basket...