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EVELYNE L. GORDON Wichita, Kans...
...curiosity of the current college-basketball season is that a regular on what Wichita State Coach Gary Thompson calls "the second best team in the country" only occasionally gets a chance to play. That team is the second string of the U.C.L.A. Bruins, who last week won their 40th game in a row, demolishing Minnesota 95-55, as 7-ft. 1½-in. Lew Alcindor poured in 28 points and grabbed 15 rebounds...
...more than 10,600 sold to date), and that's just the beginning. "A boat," as one Miami sailor puts it, "is a hole in the water, into which you pour your money." Docking fees run anywhere from $2 per day at the Ninnescah Yacht Club near Wichita, Kans., to $10 per day at the crowded slips in Newport. Yearly maintenance on a 23-ft. Star-class racer costs between $500 and $1,000-and the annual tab for a 40-ft. ocean-racing yawl can top five figures...
Naturally, this is causing some pain for planemakers. Lockheed, whose ten-passenger JetStar was the first of the corporate jets, sold 20 of the $1,500,000 planes last year, is doing no better so far in 1967. More troubled is Wichita's Lear Jet, which found itself stuck with $9,000,000 worth of unsold planes, had to merge last spring with Gates Rubber to get needed working capital. The slowdown is not confined to American makers. Britain's Hawker Siddeley, which delivered 65 of its jets to U.S. corporations between 1964 and 1966, sold only seven...
Marilyn Maye, 36, is a Wichita girl who made her reputation in Kansas City, where she has been packing The Colony for seven years. A gifted musician, she can coo a dreamy The Lamp Is Low as well as belt out Bill Bailey or Cabaret with a rhythmic finesse that connoisseurs find rare in singers nowadays. There is virtually no style, in fact, that she does not command. With her husband's intricate piano work and the backing of drums and fender bass, her performance has put Kansas City back on the map for jazz lovers...