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...Souvenir Sneaker. Havlicek watched nervously as Greer set himself to throw the ball in. "I could tell he was going deep," he said. "I decided to gamble on the interception." Greer threw, Havlicek pounced. Timing his jump perfectly, he reached up and deflected the ball-straight into the hands of Teammate Sam Jones. The buzzer sounded, and by the narrowest of margins-one slim point-the Celtics retained the Eastern Division championship...
Delirious fans swarmed out of the stands and stormed the court as the weary Celtics tottered to the locker room. A souvenir hunter ripped a sneaker right off Bill Russell's foot. Of course, it was not over yet: the Celtics still had to get past the Los Angeles Lakers to rack up their seventh straight N.B.A. title. "Oh, they'll win," shrugged Chamberlain. But next year, baby! Maybe...
...school, basketball is a giant's game. New York City alone has 50-odd high school players taller than 6 ft. 5 in.-but Power's Lew Alcindor, at 7 ft. 1 in. and 235 Ibs., is a giant among the giants. He wears a size 16D sneaker, and he can palm a basketball faster than a cop can palm an apple. In practice, he stands idly under the backboard sucking on a lollipop, dropping ball after ball into the 10-ft.-high basket-without ever leaving his feet. In a game, his specialties are the "dunk" shot...
...manufacturing plant at Batawa, a small town 110 miles east of Toronto named after the company. He frequently wears odd shoes to test his own against competitors', stresses the low-price policy (no Bata shoes cost more than $18 a pair, and prices range down to a 60? sneaker) laid down by his father. "We have the same basic idea as old Henry Ford," he says. "Turn out cheap good shoes for the mass market but give them style and quality...
...like a tammy. She is a blonde and nubile teen-ager who is as wholesome as a popsicle and quite innocent of cost fan tutte. Only one girl in the whole world may officially style herself Gidget at any given time, and the current incumbent is chirpily brazen, healthily sneaker-shod Cindy Carol, late of North Hollywood High...