Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sentiments, exactly, of the players in last week's National Basketball Association All-Star game. To begin with, there was never any question about who would win, because all the big stars-Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson-were on one side. The East had already won the game three years in a row, and had no trouble making it four straight, 137-94. But if the game itself was a bore, the game within the game was fascinating because, for the first time, N.B.A. officials had decided to give something of value to the night's most...
...happy solution would obviously be for a Cincinnati player to win the car. Oscar Robertson, who already has both a 1965 Cadillac and a 1966 Olds Toronado, was the logical candidate, but he had an unaccountably bad night, scoring just 17 points-14 below his average. With Robertson's modest defection, there seemed to be no way to keep Philadelphia's Wilt Chamberlain from winning the Ford-although he needed it less than anybody else, since he owns a $24,000 Bentley-and can't get into a Volkswagen. At 7 ft. 2 in., Chamberlain was just...
...problem may be that a suicidal lady who phones for help obviously intends to be saved, and suspense becomes a matter of mechanics. While the clock ticks away, while rescuers all around town carefully prolong the agony and news photographers batter at his door, Poitier behaves precisely like an Oscar-winning actor who has to work up an hour or more of excitement with a hot line as his only prop and such depressing pep talk as "You're something all your own, just as I am." Bancroft retaliates by spelling out her problem in flashbacks, and the gist...
Armed with what one member of the group called "a surprising unanimity" among the junior faculty, the eight took their proposals before the Board of Tutors in April, and to the full Department in May. But at the Department meeting, the reform movement hit a snag. Oscar Handlin, chairman of the Department, shelved the proposals without letting any of them come to a vote and announced that he would set up a committee to study the issues the tutors had raised...
...complained that Phillips got preferential treatment. They pointed to the fact that Puerto Rico, which was anxious to have Phillips, was represented by the Washington law firm of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, a close friend of Lyndon Johnson's. Phillips' attorney, moreover, was former Interior Secretary Oscar L. Chapman. Despite the furor, Johnson finally approved the quota change last month after Puerto Rican officials pointed out that, among 12 oil companies, only Phillips had agreed to their joint venture and reinvestment requirements...