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...college stars. Nonetheless, as the number of pro-basketball teams has grown from nine to 28 in the past nine years, scouts have found that thinking small can reap big rewards. Ask the world champion New York Knickerbockers. No fewer than three of their starting five-Walt Frazier of Southern Illinois, Willis Reed of Grambling and Dick Barnett of Tennessee State-are N.A.l.A. alumni. They all sharpened their skills in the prostyle brand of run-and-shoot that is played in the N.A.l.A...
...photograph can only capture an object; a drawing can liberate it. That phenomenon was not lost on Walt Disney, whose cartoons reveal a freedom noticeably absent from his "live" comedies. Nor is it lost on Chuck Jones, perhaps the foremost observer of the Disney fun factory. Scenarist-Director Jones, illustrator of many a Bugs Bunny and creator of Roadrunner, is the animating force behind The Phantom Tollbooth, his first full-length feature. It is based on Norton Juster's ten-year-old classic juvenile novel...
...returning to Vientiane after a week in the royal capital of Luang Prabang, even four years ago constantly threatened by Pathet Lao guerrillas. If I am anxious to get back to Vientiane, where the main amusement is Walt Disney movies dubbed in Thai, rest assured that Luang Prabang must have been dead. It is the rainy season. The only way to get to Vientiane, since there are no passable roads, is to fly-in a DC-3. The only way to get to the airport is to cross the river-on a ferry, since there are no bridges in Laos...
...chief is not exactly an innocent plucked from the reserve. A few years ago one of his sons, who was in the production at the time, landed him a role as a tribal elder in a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation series, Cariboo Country. His first film was a Walt Disney western entitled Smith!, with Glenn Ford. He delivered the eloquent speech, given in 1877 by the venerable Nez Perce chief, Joseph, with only one hitch: Dan George speaks Squamish, not Nez Perce. They made do with Squamish...
After the first saber team won all three of their bouts in the first round, coach Edo Marion replaced them with Terry Valenzuela. Rick Sticketti, Emil Godfrey, and Walt Morris. With the exception of Sticketti, all of them won at least one bout...