Word: stilts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign treasury paid $250 to a Baptist ministers conference, something like $1,000 apiece to two Baptist ministers who agreed to work for the candidate. Three Negro athletes also received several hundred dollars apiece for posing for promotional pictures: Timmy Brown, a halfback for the Philadelphia Eagles; Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, a center for the 76ers basketball team; and Ira Davis, an Olympic track star. In his own defense, Shapp testified that the players had volunteered, and that he was surprised when he was asked to pay them...
...literature devoted to his life and exploits runs to perhaps 2,000,000 words of prose and 200 of poetry, chock-full of such fascinating revelations as that he sleeps naked, trims his beard with fingernail scissors, has an IQ of 127 and hates the nickname "Wilt the Stilt." No one has seemed able to agree on two fairly important and somewhat related points about Wilt Chamberlain: 1) how tall he is, and 2) how good...
Anybody who stands 7 ft. l½ in. tall makes a pretty good target, and Wilt ("the Stilt") Chamberlain has taken his share of abuse from fans (who holler "goon" and "freak") and sportswriters (who call him a poor team player). Wilt's answers take up most of the space in the National Basketball Association's record book. He has scored as many as 100 points in a single night. He also has taken more shots at the basket (63), sunk more free throws (28) and collected more rebounds (55) in one game than anybody else. Last week...
Roaring into Monticello, N.Y., in his custom-made lavender Bentley for a benefit basketball game, Wilt ("the Stilt") Chamberlain, 29, announced that he had brooded it over and would not, after all, accept $250,000 from boxing promoters to become the world's highest pug (7 ft. 1% in.). Instead, he will accept a $55,000 annual raise, to $125,000, to remain the world's highest-salaried basketball player. After he signed his new three-year contract with the Philadelphia 76ers, Wilt thought of a good friend and bitter rival, the 6-ft. 10-in. pillar...
...years ago. The pride of the Celtics was Bill Russell (6 ft. 10 in.), the N.B.A.'s four-time Most Valuable Player, a brooding defensive genius who gobbles sleeping pills and vomits from tension before every game. The pillar of the 76'ers was Wilt The Stilt Chamberlain, a giant (7 ft. 1-1/16 in.) among giants, who has scored as many as 100 points in a single game, who calls everybody "baby," including his lavender Bentley, and whose bitterness about the game almost equals his success...