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...Bible, Jesus angrily threw the money-changers out of the temple. But the Stewardship Bank of Oregon, outside Portland, believes that it has found the perfect blend of God and mammon. Founded last March by a group of born-again Christians, the financial institution now serves as holy bankroller for 900 depositors. The staff holds a daily prayer meeting before unlocking the safe, and tellers at times deliver a sermonet with deposits and withdrawals. A share of the bank's profits will be tithed to Christian education projects...
...Portland 109, Golden State...
...Portland Trail Blazers were less a basketball team than a fan's dream. With Center Bill Walton healthy for the only full season of his ill-starred career, the club won the National Basketball Association championship and, in the process, made the works of a Swiss watch look haphazard. Three seasons later, the Trail Blazers had slipped into the second division, the bright hopes of dynasty ended. The parabola of the Trail Blazers is the stuff of tragedy. But Author David Halberstam (The Powers That Be) has produced a tome so heavy that he contracts what basketball insiders call...
...team during the 1979-80 season, Walton has left in a fury of lawsuits against the team, its trainer and doctor over treatments with pain killers. Maurice Lucas, the power forward who had provided muscle and meanness under the boards, was locked in an acrimonious contract dispute with Portland's owner. Guard Lionel Hollins, ball-handler and playmaker nonpareil, also wrangled with management; he and Lucas were soon traded. Their running mate, Dave Twardzik, stumbled about the court, a man suddenly severed from a rare athletic symbiosis. Forward Bobby Gross was injured for most of the season, and when...
...locker room, and the volume's only sense of life comes when the players speak, all too rarely, in their own voices. Between the testimonies are pages of ponderous speculations and familiar psychological and political theorizing. "Many of the blacks had never seen anything like it [Portland] before-the mountains, the forests, the river-they had heard of land like this but it always seemed to be something that would belong to white people." The book's one insight is into the character of Bill Walton. He casts an emotional shadow that is even larger than his considerable...