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Rootin' Shootin'. Why? Explains Texas Western Basketball Coach Don Haskins: "It's just a much better game than it ever used to be." The most exciting thing about the new game is that winning teams like the U.C.L.A. Bruins are leaning on runts such as Walt Hazzard (6 ft. 2 in.), who make up in speed, style and teamwork what they lack in brute size. In all team sports, it is the drama of score-the breakaway touchdown, the grand-slam homer-that makes the excitement. In basketball, the scoringest sport in the land...
...moral cancer, as Dad calls it, is ever present," he explains. But could Dad have prepared him for Kitten's un-American attack on television? She dismisses a global panel discussion that JC is ungallantly watching as "dum rockit rackit." When a western comes on, she screams "Whiteman shootin . . . mothahless madass boom boomin crap." Then, jaybird naked, she picks up the offending set bodily and tries to toss it out the narrow window. She fails. "Yeah! Gee-zuz! Ain nothin else I kin do t'kill that bastid, sep grab him by his lectrick line and pull...
World War II found Harkins assigned as assistant chief of staff to General George ("Blood and Guts") Patton, serving under that skilled, flamboyant leader from North Africa to the bloody slash into Nazi Germany. Outwardly, the two were totally different: Patton, a shootin', cussin' swashbuckler; Harkins, quiet, firm, invariably polite. But a fellow officer says, "I really think that inside, he and Patton were the same." The same, certainly, in their drive for victory...
Last week, after the Governor Daniel and General Walker announcements, few Texans were ready to bet on the outcome. Just one thing seemed certain: the primary campaign would be a real old-style Texas shootin' match...
Fire a shotgun into a crowd of Texans, and sure as shootin', a candidate for the U.S. Senate will say ouch. Up for a vote next week is the Senate seat vacated by Vice President Lyndon Johnson,* and under Texas rules for special elections, there are no nominating primaries and no party labels. It costs only the filing of an application and a $50 fee to become eligible for the honor, and $50 is not hard to come by in Texas. No fewer than 71 men and women are looking...