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Most of the press attention centered on Ehrlichman's claim that Chief Justice Warren Burger "on several occasions" attended White House meetings at which "Nixon, [Attorney General John] Mitchell and I openly discussed with the Chief Justice the pros and cons of issues before the court." The topics, contends Ehrlichman, included school busing at a time when the issue was about to come before the Supreme Court. While Nixon apparently stressed his antibusing views to Burger, the Chief Justice clearly was not swayed. He ended up writing a pro-busing opinion in the North Carolina case then pending. Still...
...Rhode Island for a game with powerful Providence College. The Friars, the defending ECAC champs, also happened to have the best recruiting year of any team in the country, even though they failed to land Bobby Carpenter, the St. John's Prep star who went straight to the pros out of high school...
...HIGHLIGHTS of Breaks, as of any Halberstam book, are the profiles--long and sensitive, almost stream-of-consciousness journeys into a character's past. In them Halberstam examines this book's dominant sub-text, race. Basketball today is a Black game played (in the pros) mostly by Blacks. Halberstam's discussion of the use of basketball as a route out of the ghetto is familiar to anyone interested in the sport, but he tells it with grace. More important are his examples of how race--not racism, exactly--still shapes the professional game: Owners who demand at least...
...analysis of race works best in the story of a single player, Kermit Washington. Washington emerged from a shy and awkward childhood in the Washington, D.C., slums to become a top draft choice with the Los Angeles Lakers. Initially, he failed in the pros, but through a combination of good coaching and hard work almost unrivaled in this selfish era, he had become a star. Then, in an instant that any fan, and many non-fans, will long recall, he punched Rudy Tomjanovich in a brawl and nearly killed him. This gentle man, this hero, had marked himself forever with...
...poured Dodger dirt all over himself," Gigi laughs. "He was out there rolling in the Dodger dirt." Says Scheper: "I wend nuts when we won." Craziness aside, it's interesting to note that the entire starting nine from Scheper's team is still playing baseball, four in the pros and five in college. And Scheper was voted most inspirational by his teammates. "Just for the Dodger dirt," he grins...