Word: stalling
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...freeze" or "stall" is one of the oldest tactics in basketball-although it is clearly a violation of the spirit, if not the substance, of modern rules. Any college coach with a late lead to protect will order his boys to keep the ball away from the other team by holding it, passing it back and forth, refusing to shoot for the basket. Now a new fad is sweeping the courts: the game-long stall. Within a week, three of the nation's top teams have been bedeviled by opponents who set out to win by just standing there...
First to feel the chill was No. 4-ranked Princeton, the Tiger of the Ivy League and favored by 40 points over Dartmouth, a team it had already whipped 116-42. Dartmouth went into a stall at the opening tap-off; not a shot was taken for ten minutes, only 30 were taken in the entire game. Princeton won, 30-16, but Dartmouth Coach Dave Gavitt insisted: "If our shooting percentage had been better, we might have beaten them...
Despite the fact that the Administration at year's end named Boeing and General Electric as the winners of the competition to build the U.S.'s first supersonic jet transport, the big bird has remained in a stall. In a bind over budget and congressional problems, President Johnson held back on funds that Boeing and G.E. need to make prototypes. Last week, however, the Administration hit on a new maneuver to start the SST toward...
...country's history (56%). Since then, the two have been the best of enemies. Last month Allende managed to win election as head of the Chilean Senate. Quietly, he organized a strong Senate opposition of Communists, socialists and middle-roading Radicals, all of whom had managed to stall most of Frei's legislative requests. Last week Allende savored his revenge and in the process made Chile the laughingstock of Latin America. Acting on an obscure 1833 law requiring congressional approval for all presidential trips abroad, the Senate voted to deny Frei permission to make his first state visit...
...occupied by Michael Rennie and Merle Oberon, the Duke and Duchess of Croydon, who have a bloody mess on their hands. The duke, a bit of a dipso, kills a small boy while driving drunk. The duchess is a Lady Macbeth in mink who fears that a scandal will stall her husband's diplomatic career and persuades him to step on the gas so he won't have to stand up in court. A little petrol does not clear them of the deed, however. Richard Conte, the unscrupulous house detective, puts two and two together and decides that...