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...league in scoring with an average of 29.9 points a game and in rebounding with a 19.4 average, set new league records for total points in one season (2,519) and in one game (59). He was named both Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player. During the offseason, Haywood declared himself unhappy with his contract because "I'm not getting half of what I was supposed to get from them." Last November, backed by lawyers from an athletes' management firm, Haywood filed suit to have his Rocket contract nullified. Then two weeks ago, he signed...
...those talent-laden teams that always lose the big game. The major disappointment came in the first Super Bowl in 1967, when Green Bay trounced the Chiefs 35-10. Since then, Stram has concentrated on building up his defense, choosing carefully in the draft, trading furiously offseason. The result is the biggest, fastest, most feared defense in the game...
Staid during the season and stultifying offseason, Montreux is a natural haven for a genius with billowing dreams and a narrowing future. It is a two-street town, one low and one high, dumped at the foot of one Alp and facing another across Lake Geneva. Beyond the town is Byron's Castle of Chillon, the big tourist attraction of the area...
...hotel is a vast rococo establishment. In the offseason, the staff tends to outnumber the 20-odd guests. Most of these regulars are women of 60 or more-a couple of Americans, a few English, a stray Parisian countess or two. Twice a day they gather in the Winter Dining Room, a smallish chamber in the hotel basement, which, despite lavish importation of daffodils and red tulips, is a frightful miniature of desolation. All guests have their own tables; there is almost no talk. The Nabokovs have a cook and eat here only when they have visitors...
...Epstein, who stands 6 ft. 3½ in., weighs 238 Ibs., has a Star of David stenciled on his glove and can belt a baseball clear out of sight. The only trouble Hank has with Mike is carrying on a conversation. Mike, who studies social psychology in the offseason, likes to quote Socrates, Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson; even when he is talking baseball, he tosses off such words as indigenous and meaningfulness. Bauer finally had to take him to task. "Don't give me none of your high-falutin talk," he ordered, "I can't understand...