Word: lanphier
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Klunick, the Springfield, Ill. native, is the most talked about recruit on the team, and for good reason. He graduated from Lanphier High School, which has produced two tremendous talents in the past few years. Andre Iguodala—who graduated from Lanphier three years ago and played his college ball at Arizona—was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers this year, and Klunick’s old classmate, Richard McBride, now plays for Illinois...
...right, World War II U.S. fighter pilot given partial credit for shooting down the plane carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the strategist of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, in a famed 1943 ambush; in Terrebonne, Oregon. For 28 years the Air Force gave sole credit to pilot Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., above left, but in 1973 Barber was officially recognized. DIED. EDWARD GIEREK, 88, reform-minded communist leader of Poland from 1970-1980 whose attempts to liberalize the economy plunged the country into debt and ignited the discontent that led to the creation of the Solidarity movement; in Cieszyn, Poland...