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...elbows have helped him pull down 81 rebounds so far this year. Forward Tom Thacker, "the tallest 6-ft. 2-in. player in basketball." is so spring-legged that he can get up above the 10-ft.-high basket and "dunk" the ball with both hands-just as the pros' 7-ft. Wilt Chamberlain does. Forward Ron Bonham (6 ft. 5 in.) is a bull-shouldered marksman whose delicate push shot is accurate from as far away as 20 ft., and whose free-throw record (93%) is the best on the squad. Guards Tony Yates...
Football, as the pros go at it, is a game of special brilliance, played by brilliant specialists. A great golfer strives for versatility: to master the controlled hook, the chip-and-run, the wedge pitch, to learn a dozen uses for each of the 14 clubs in his bag-and gnaws his nails in frustration. But a good offensive tackle knows a dozen devastating ways to accomplish just one mission-block. He even went to college to learn that. In pro football, nothing is left to chance: a single play may have 100 variations, each fashioned as meticulously...
...touch cap, look for sign, shake head, shake again, check first, big sigh, wind up, finally pitch. Crack! Foul ball-and the fans could be halfway to Chicago by jet. Even a good thing palls when the games go on day after day for six months. Football's pros are shrewder: they perform just once a week, 14 times a season, and it is often standing room only. Last year the National Football League filled 76% of the seats in its stadiums (v. big-league baseball's 34%), and this year the N.F.L. sold half its seats before...
Mayor James S. Baker, 45, is well aware that Pomona's new civic excitement will taper off, no matter how successful the project is. Addressing one of the many delegations from other cities that have visited Pomona to study the pros and cons of malls, he warned: "We realize that this spirit can't last forever, but we are trying to get as much done as we can while the spirit lasts...
...trade-school atmosphere, put real scholars from science and the humanities on the education faculty. To earn Harvard's pioneering Master of Arts in Teaching, students now get a rich dose of liberal learning, plus "intern" teaching practice in public schools. Future administrators sit under such old pros as Professor Herold Hunt, former school superintendent of Chicago...