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Plenty of basketball players can pass behind their backs, fake like Houdini, and riffle the net from 20 ft. But Rodney King Thorn, a gangling (6 ft. 4 in., 180 Ibs.) youth of 21, is probably the only one whose talents called forth a special resolution from his home-state legislature. In solemn session, the lawmakers classified him as "a great natural resource," begged him to attend the local university "to further develop his natural athletic ability for the use and benefit of the State and its 2,000,000 citizens...
...state was West Virginia-but West Virginia breeds basketball stars as lavishly as Texas turns out football players, is the home of such slick-shooting pros as Jerry West and Hot Rod Hundley. The way the Mountaineers at West Virginia University look at it Thorn may turn out to be the best...
...time he was 17 and a high school senior, the offers had grown to "slightly more than 100." One school promised him plenty of spending money, another a car. Four offered to pay his way through medical school, provide free housing if he married. One even tried to tempt Thorn's father with a police job in the same county. "At first I enjoyed the attention," says Rod. "But then I decided it was sort of repulsive." He turned them all down in favor of a straight athletic scholarship to West Virginia (tuition, room and board). Besides...
...Barnett for his show of guts by standing up for his convictions, states' rights and the will of the people of the sovereign state of Mississippi. If there were more people like him in high positions in the Federal Government, would we have to worry about the "Cuban thorn" or similar situations...
...First I read TIME'S article on Cuba [Sept. 14]. Then came the evening paper headlining the Soviet Union's latest threat, and I have never in my life been so downright mad. Because of our President's indecision and hesitation, the thorn in our side has become a boil...