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...dangerous bull" (the animal, not the conversational variety) or as a particularly accommodating woman. Examples of each species are at large in The Honkers, and they cause no end of mischief. Whether of the two-or four-legged variety, they have a habit of throwing the feckless hero, Lew Lathrop (James Coburn), into a ringtail loop...
...settle down prove his undoing. He loses his much abused wife (Lois Nettleton) and teen-age son just when he comes to realize he needs them both. He wrassles unsuccessfully with guilt when his best buddy, Clete (Slim Pickens), a rodeo clown who keeps an avuncular eye on Lew, gets his neck broken for his trouble. When last seen, Lew is wandering off over yonder hill, saddle over his shoulder, sadder but prob ably not much wiser...
Wooden has shown that he can win with almost any kind of lineup. His first titles at U.C.L.A. came with fast but small teams led by Walt Hazzard and Gail Goodrich; then came the three-year era of giant Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then known as Lew Alcindor); medium-sized teams led by Sidney Wicks followed. Now he has another outstanding giant in redhaired, freckle-faced Bill Walton. A 6-ft. 11-in. 19-year-old, Walton led the Bruins in scoring (24) and rebounding (20) in the final against Florida State but talked afterward as if they had lost...
...Lakers rolled to their 23rd consecutive win at week's end, there was even talk that they could go all the way against Kareem Jabbar (formerly Lew Alcindor) and the vaunted Milwaukee Bucks, the overwhelming preseason favorites to win their second straight N.B.A. title. If conditioning alone determined the winner, the Lakers would be shoo-ins. Last week, when Laker Owner Jack Kent Cooke jubilantly broke out the champagne to celebrate the team's record-breaking victory, most of the players drank their toasts in Gatorade...
...Yale Daily New's Lew Schwartz sat in quiet shock at the post-game party in the News's posh office on York St. last Saturday noon...