Word: mcgills
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Sweeping down court on the attack, the University of Utah's heron-legged Bill ("The Hill") McGill is one of the basketball phenomena of the year-a 6-ft. 9-in., 215-lb. giant who can nevertheless dribble with the slick speed of a sawed-off backcourt man and get off every shot in the book, ranging from arching hooks to driving layups. Last week McGill's average was up to 28.7 points a game, the fourth highest in the nation. Shrugged the University of Denver's Coach Hoyt Brawner after losing to Utah...
...Critics' Committee. Brought up in Los Angeles, the son of an impoverished Negro family, McGill blossomed into the best big basketball player ever developed in a California high school. But to the anguish of the University of California's Coach Pete Newell, McGill's high school grades were as bad as his basketball was good. To better the chances of shoe-horning Billy into Cal, Newell imported him to San Francisco for his last high school term. McGill's grades rose, but not enough. When he found that he would have to prep at a junior...
Next term Dunster House will offer a series of five seminars on India. The program will feature five speakers, all authors of books assigned in the course, they are: Asoka Mehta, national chairman of the Praja Socialist Party; Michael Brecher, professor of political science at McGill University; Edward Shils, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago; Albert Mayer, a development adviser in India; and Selig Harrison, associate editor of the New Republic...
...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In Who Speaks for the South? prominent figures in Atlanta, including Mayor William B. Hartsfield and Editor Ralph McGill, explore the integration problem...
...stormy Democratic convention unseated Kennedy-suoporting Governor J. Howard Edmondson. 34, as a national-convention delegate, steamrollered on to choose a 29-vote delegation bound to Lyndon Johnson by unit rule and prepared to settle for Symington. Edmondson, loser in an intraparty fight last February with State Chairman Gene McGill, barely got back his convention seat at week's end as delegate-at-large...