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Wilson expressed much satisfaction with the play of Jack Hamilton, who has earned himself a spot in the starting five with his hustel, and has become a "take-charge guy." Also rating special praise were Phil Haughey and Bill Schreiber, either of whom were among the starting five at the beginning of the season...
...problems of a freshman basketball coach is to mold a team out of boys who come from all parts of the country and are not familiar with our so-called Eastern style of play. Schreiber and Hamilton have been slow in founding into form because they come from the Mid-West, where the emphasis was on the zone defense. Since we use the man-to-man exclusively, they have been weak on defense. Haughey, on the other hand, has had to regain his basketball legs which he lost in freshman football...
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 29-year-old editor of the conservative weekly L'Express: "The French mystery is impotence-that lucidity should be followed by nothing. If you listen to an ex-minister, he will explain with serenity what might have been done; if you meet a man in office today he will brilliantly explain what should be done. The ideas are seductive, the directions are clearly indicated, the plans are detailed. France conceived the universe and then nothing, or almost nothing, happens . . . The men who govern today or have governed in recent years (they are practically the same...
...Mayor Schreiber will hold office until December 1954. His biggest headaches: 1) 208,000 unemployed out of a total population of 2,000,000, 2) a constant stream of refugees fleeing from the East zone, 3) a threat by the Socialists, Berlin's largest party, to go into active opposition. Schreiber is well aware of the danger of political disunity in a city that is still an island in a Red sea. He knows how to get along with others. A Protestant, Schreiber helped Catholic Chancellor Konrad Adenauer found the Christian Democratic Party that now rules Germany. A free...
...friends in the assembly, Schreiber confided last week: "Despite everything, I have always been lucky." He would need much more than luck to lead West Berliners, who, Ernst Reuter once said, must every day "live like heroes...