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...loves to play rough. Just ask Jay Carty, a onetime Oregon State basketball star now studying for his doctor's degree at U.C.L.A. He was hired this fall to look after the Bruins' prize prospect: towering Lew Alcindor, 18, the ex-Manhattan schoolboy who was the most-sought-after high school player in the U.S. last year. When Alcindor turned out for the U.C.L.A. freshman team this fall, he showed lots of promise and precious little else. "He just stood there with his hands down," recalls Bruins Coach John Wooden. "He faded away from his shots...
...Holy Cross freshman have a great center in 6-9 Ron Texeira, one of the most talked about schoolboy basketball stars in Massachusetts history. Their 6-7 forward Ed Siudup can pump in jump shots from 30 feet out, and their entire starting five is outstanding. But the Yardlings might beat them; Coach George Harrington's squad is just as big as the Crusaders and a lot deeper...
...freshman Baker was heralded as the finest distance runner to ever enter Harvard. He had run a 4:14.9 mile a 9:14 two-mile as an English schoolboy. He captained the freshman cross-country team and led the Crimson pack most of the fall...
...associates flail away at momism, nepotism, space-age technology, dirty old men, antiSemitism, anything. They treat the audience to a series of small, distasteful shocks, but as black comedy gives way to bald effrontery, even the shock wears off The Loved One seems as crude and pointless as a schoolboy's Halloween prank like tipping over tombstones or throwing a stink bomb into the parsonage...
Fateful Friendship. But to Joe's profound dismay, his daydreams do not come true. No fur-lined apartments, no nymphomaniacal millionairesses. Pretty soon he runs out of money and sells himself to a homosexual schoolboy-who takes his pleasure but then cannot pay. Too gentle to take revenge, too stupid to see what is coming, Joe sinks into demoralized destitution. But in the depths he finds a friend, a bright-eyed young cripple named Ratso, and for the first time in his life he is happy. Not for long. The cripple dies of general debilitation, and as the book...