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...about Alcindor so far is that he is a trifle slow coming downcourt on offense-to which Wooden replies: "I don't care how long he takes to get into position. We'll wait for him." And so will the fans. Every U.C.L.A. home game is a sellout, and 27,000 people braved the worst blizzard in Chicago history to see him against Loyola and Illinois. "Everyone wants to see the big guy play," says Santa Clara Coach Dick Garibaldi, who counts himself fortunate that his team does not play the Bruins. "Why, people are even calling...
When Chrysler Corp. bought 30% of the voting shares of Britain's Rootes Motors Ltd. in 1964, the opposition Labor Party charged incumbent Conservatives with a sellout, voiced fears that the move would lead to U.S. domination of a major British industry. Laborites hooted at the Conservatives' assurances that Chrysler would not be allowed to increase its Rootes holdings substantially without government sanction. Last week, in a rather full circle, the Labor government found itself bestowing its blessing on a Chrysler takeover. Minister of Technology Anthony Wedgwood Benn announced approval of additional purchases of Rootes shares that will...
...drummed his way in and out of more orchestras, mismanaged more money than any ten musicians. The new Buddy Rich Band? "Another one of his fancies for the moment," shrugged Bandleader Stan Kenton. But then, to everyone's surprise, the band not only materialized but drew enthusiastic, sellout crowds in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Marveled Kenton: "Rich is serious...
...Piaf's trademark, she caused a sensation at Paris' Olympia music hall singing the plaintive ballads that made "the Sparrow of the Streets" a national idol until her death in 1963. Soon Mireille's recordings were topping the bestseller lists; this summer she sang 64 consecutive sellout concerts in the provinces, outdrawing all other French and foreign singers. Last month her pixyish face, framed in a heart-shaped helmet of chestnut hair, appeared on the covers of France's three leading women's magazines, refueling the Piaf mystique...
...gusto of a back-porch gossip fest. And her reading of the passionate No. 20, the most popular of Mozart's piano works, was clean refinement and intense drama. It was impeccable Mozart throughout, original without being eccentric, introspective without being pedantic. At concert's end, the sellout crowd in Manhattan's Town Hall applauded like baseball fans who had just shared in winning the first game of the World Series...