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...window of an auto showroom-at the window itself, not at the glittering barges behind it. The glass flexed in and out, visibly and violently, like the stomach of a sales manager who has just hit a triple in a company Softball game. The explanation of this marvel lay in a large, gilt-plastered room one flight up: Manhattan's Palladium Ballroom. There, nearly 1,000 tunestruck New Yorkers-Cubans and Puerto Ricans, non-Latin secretaries and button-downs-were writhing from side to side, stomping and waving handkerchiefs in the air. The building is sturdy, but the floors...
...glandular goon who could do little more than stand beneath the basket and stuff in rebounds. Philadelphia's Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, who leads the N.B.A. in scoring with an average 37.8, stands 7 ft. 2 in., but has the speed and agility to be a marvel were he half a foot shorter. St. Louis' Bob Pettit (6 ft. 9 in.) is quick and graceful, Boston's Bill Russell (6 ft. 10 in.) is a defensive and rebounding genius, Los Angeles' Elgin Baylor (6 ft. 5 in.) combines the brute strength of a pro football tackle...
...comfortably established in Peking's Peace Hotel, filled with good food in one of the hotel's two restaurants (one European, one Chinese) and then taken to hear the joyful songs of peasants toiling in the communes, to watch workers boosting norms in factories and marvel at pedestrians doing pre-dawn setting-up exercises in the streets. He travels from city to city (each with its own special Peace Hotel) listening to his highly sympathetic, "open-minded" guide point out the similarities between China's agrarian peasant society and Latin America...
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Jan. 7--A well-balanced Brown quintet ripped off eight straight points within 55 seconds early in the second half and easily defeated a listless Harvard team, 73-53, at Marvel Gymnasium tonight...
...foreign must be harmful, and this formula is ground out in a totally undiscriminating fashion with results that are sometimes irritating, sometimes harmful, and sometimes mortally harmful. It is far better to have immunological defenses than not to have them, but this does not mean that we are to marvel at them as evidences of a high and wise design...