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On the final day against Czechoslovakia, the exhausted U.S. team was trailing 4-3 when it got a surprise assist. Russian Captain Nikolai Sologubov, who speaks no English, approached Coach Riley, gestured as if he were gasping, then mimed putting on an oxygen mask. Riley got the hint. He procured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sub into Star | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

Back home in the lumbering town of Cottage Grove, Ore. they remember Dyrol Burleson as the spindly-legged kid who was always running-to the grocery, around the reservoir, or just down the road, with his mother pacing him in the family car. Burleson developed so fast that he set...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Oregon Flash | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

At time outs or waiting for foul shots, he gnaws nervously on the thumb of his right hand, looking like somebody's little brother tagging after the big boys. Standing an even 6 ft., the Philadelphia War rior's guard barely comes to the chins of some of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Playmaker | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

The U.N.I.P. is an extremist party that has sprung up since the British governor banned the militant Zambia Congress and jailed its leader, 35-year-old Kenneth Kaunda. An ascetic who once lived for weeks on roots and berries on a wild hillside, Kaunda says, "Africans are treated like dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN RHODESIA: Another Kenya? | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

Coach Taylor need not have lost any sleep. Next night against Memphis State, Lucas was a spring-legged hotshot. In one span of 77 sec., he scored 8 points (2 tap-ins, 4 foul shots), finished with 34 points in his team's 94-55 victory. Two nights later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Luke | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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