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Mystical Way. The Knicks may be able to stop Milwaukee, but almost nobody else can. In Center Lew Alcindor and Guard Oscar Robertson, the Bucks have the most potent one-two scoring punch in the game today. Much more aggressive off the boards than in his rookie year, Alcindor is averaging 16 rebounds a game and scoring at a 32-point pace with his derricklike hook shots and whirling dunks. Snared from Cincinnati in a masterful trading coup, Robertson is playing as well as he ever has in his ten-year N.B.A. career. Remarkably unselfish for a superstar...
...reputation, and it is still one of his best. It is the quintessential Ionesco play: a nightmare of wholly clogged, overrun world. Words, persons, things, and animals proliferate in a slambang of entrances and exits that snowball in a confusion of ceaseless movement. Theatricality and insanity, the two most potent themes of modern theater, are the subject as well as the method. A production of an Ionesco play involves almost as many problems as there are stage directions. The coordination of movement and dialogue must be perfect; the hectic action must have a constant momentum which increasingly bombards the audience...
...Especially among the young, they have virtually become figures of legend. A Louis Harris poll taken for TIME last year discovered that 64% of all blacks surveyed agreed that the Panthers gave them "a sense of pride." First with squabbling and now with bloodshed, the Panthers are destroying a potent myth of their own creation...
...finally ends (choppers that crash are disqualified). Says soft-spoken Huey Pilot John Oldham. 22, of Peculiar, Mo.: "If you think about getting killed, it will screw you up. You just do the job you are trained for." Over Laos, where the elaborate Communist antiaircraft system is especially potent, the pilots fly high-but not on grass. There may be plenty of pot smokers in Viet Nam's foxholes, but there are very few in its helicopters, where a man may have to monitor five radios at once, handle a number of lethal weapons, and manipulate complex controls...
Foul Ball. By his action, Nixon sought to minimize the wrath of the nation's 3,500,000 unionized and politically potent hardhats. In January, he asked labor and management chiefs to devise a voluntary program to stabilize the industry's skyscraping costs (TIME, Feb. 15). Two weeks ago, he sent Labor Secretary James Hodgson and Harvard Economics Professor John Dunlop to negotiate with the building trades' executive council at Bal Harbour, Fla. Dunlop tried to win labor's tacit consent to a temporary wage-price freeze and creation of a voluntary labor-management-public wage...