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...null Palestra was sold out long before the University of Kansas basketball team showed up last week for what promised to be a light workout with St. Joseph's College. For Philadelphia fans it was enough that they would have a chance to see Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain in action. The Negro star, all 7 ft. 2 in. of him, is their boy. This was their first chance, since he left Philadelphia's Overbrook High three years ago to see what The Stilt might have learned since Jayhawk recruiters outbid more than 100 schools and sent...
...Philosophy. During his early days at Kansas, The Stilt scored astronomically, but he proved to be stoppable. In the finals of the N.C.A.A. championship, North Carolina tied up Kansas by letting four men sag all over The Stilt, and won the game, 54-53-As demonstrated in the Palestra, the rest of the Kansas team is capable of practicing a new philosophy: each does his share of scoring, instead of feeding Wilt. So it is no longer good play for any club to collapse its defense on Wilt; the Jayhawkers have some outside shooters who are too dangerous...
...boys by insisting he was only 6 ft. n in. tall. Now he can even poke fun at his "little brother" Wilbert, who is only 6 ft. 5 in. "Nothing to him," says Wilt. When a stranger accosts him and says, "Wilt, can I ask you a question?", The Stilt proudly interrupts. "That's right," he says. "Over seven feet." His opponents insist he is three feet taller than that...
...marshes near Sicily's town of Marsala, Hunter Paolo Lamia took aim, shot down a black-plumed, white-breasted stilt plover, a breed seldom seen in Italy, which migrates each fall from Arctic Siberia to North Africa. On the bird's right leg Lamia found a glass vial containing a message, written in Italian with scrawled capital letters on both sides of an eight-inch strip of paper. On orders of the Ministry of the Interior, the paper was painstakingly analyzed, determined to be of Russian manufacture. The message: "Many messages but no hope. For 13 years...
Carolina's squad of talented Yankees (TIME, Jan. 7) boasted a 31-consecutive-game winning streak. Kansas, beaten only once all season, had that 7-ft. Philadelphia phenomenon, Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain. The meeting was sure to make a superlative game for the sellout crowd...