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...hitting the hoop. Hampered by a so-so team, Chet manages to shake loose an average 29 points a game with set shots from outside, or driving lay-ups. All season he has been right up among the leaders for national scoring honors, and despite his size the pros are already dickering for his services.
...University of Kansas' lanky (7-ft.-2-in.) Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain is the most publicized college-basketball player in a generation. Before he graduated from a Philadelphia high school, the pros were squabbling over him; more than 140 colleges were bidding for his services. Still far from his prime, Wilt is just too big for most opponents. Ever since The Stilt arrived in Kansas, the university field house has been sold out for almost every game. Chancellor Franklin Murphy goes into weekend seclusion to avoid rabid fans "prepared to trade their honor for two seats." Even if Wilt...
Display of Discipline. Oddly enough, the killing off of "authorized" came as a relief to Minority Leader William Fife Knowland. Also troubled by the constitutional issue, Republican Knowland had wrestled the pros and cons for days after the resolution was first introduced, had decided, out of loyalty to Ike and the G.O.P., to support the President's wording. Backed up by New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Knowland called committee Republicans to his office, urged them to side with Ike in what had turned into a partisan fight. When it came to voting last week, the Republicans...
Different Pitch. This was fast-breaking basketball, a cut above the collegiate brand and only a thin slice below the deadly precision of the best pros. Technically, at least, the players of the National Industrial Basketball League are amateurs...
After Australia's Davis Cup triumph, Australians and New Zealanders could be forgiven the notion that tennis down under is the best in the world. Then the pros came to town, and local pride went back into the marsupial pouch. Aussie Ken Rosewall hardly belonged on the court with Pro Champion Pancho Gonzales...