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Down on the West Virginia bench, Coach Fred Schaus crunched a program in his country-ham-sized hands and grimly watched his lanky, burr-headed Mountaineers put the ball in play. Around him, Philadelphia's Palestra was rocking with astonished delight. With a 75-10-72 lead, the local boys from Villanova were just 30 seconds away from upsetting undefeated West Virginia, the nation's first-ranked team...
Smoothly, the well-drilled West Virginians whipped the ball back and forth until baby-faced Sophomore Jerry West broke free, twisted through the air and sank a layup that made the score 75 to 74. Then Schaus's mountain boys got a whopping break. A mix-up between officials gave them the ball under the Villanova hoop. Instantly, a pass flicked in to Star Center Lloyd Sharrar, who arched his 6 ft. 10 in. off the floor and took aim. Two seconds before the gun, his winning shot dropped in. The hustling Mountaineers had overtaken a 14-point lead...
...weren't quite ready to hardnose with them so early," said Schaus after last week's squeeze. "But in the second half, the boys found they'd have to do it. And they did." When the hardnosed Mountaineers landed back in Morgantown at 1 in the morning, they got a reception fit for World Series winners...
...eyes with a magnifying glass, promptly diagnosed her trouble as "having eye muscles too far apart." He gave her a red-and-black-striped stick, told her to stare at it cross-eyed for 15 minutes a day. Charge: $5. In Weslaco, "Patient" Ben Laney told Naturopath F. G. Schaus that he thought he had food poisoning. A machine diagnosed a kidney stone. Schaus massaged Laney's hand, saying that it contained the nerve to his kidney...