Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew what I was doing was wrong," said the star basketball player. But he did it anyway. In return for shaving points in four recent games, charged New York City's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan last week, New York University's Ray Paprocky, 23, took $1,300 from gamblers. He was not alone, said Hogan. Accused of accepting similar bribes were four former players at New York's St. John's University and New Jersey's Seton Hall University. They were only the latest bad sports in a nationwide basketball scandal, first revealed...
Many a college coach and president was shocked at the extent of the mess-which is fast overshadowing the 1951 bribe scandal involving some 30 basketball players at seven colleges-and cast about for the causes. A sample explanation came from N.Y.U.'s Ray Paprocky. a blond, crew-cut management major who looks like anyone's All-American astronaut. "That money was worth more to me than getting caught," he said, candidly. "I was married, my wife was expecting a baby, my father had just died. I had to repay a loan, and I had nothing...
...much farther away from himself than Pal's lost Atlantis. The dress and decor are a sumptuous mishmash of Greek, Roman, Renaissance, Assyrian, Mayan, Egyptian. Tartar, and Park Avenue highrise. Cauldrons boil, priests prophesy, volcanoes belch, lava pours, mountains move, buildings crumble, tidal waves tumble, and death-ray guns pulverize people and ships. The slaves in the House of Fear are turned into beasts of burden at the behest of a crystal-twirling caliph: "Now you will close your eyes. When you are commanded to open them, you will be a bull"-or a boar, a bear...
...creditable 9.4 sec. in the 100, 20.6 in the 220. Unhappy with his poor showing in the 1960 Olympics-he started sloppily, was eliminated in the loo-meter quarter-finals-Johnson transferred to San Jose State to work under canny Track Coach Lloyd ("Bud") Winter, who developed U.S. Sprinters Ray Norton and Bobby Poynter...
...Among them: Australia's Hector Hogan (1954), the U.S.'s Dave Sime (twice in 1956, once in 1957), Bobby Morrow (1957) and Ray Norton...