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...Barnett sank the free throw, and Boston's lead was only a point. The next basket would tell the story. Cousy floated a jump shot toward the basket. The ball banged the rim, caromed crazily into a tangle of flailing arms. A roar went up. Laker Rookie Gene Wiley had the rebound. Then a groan. Again, Tommy Heinsohn stole the ball, went up to shoot and was fouled by Wiley. Los Angeles fans chanted "Miss it! Miss it!" Heinsohn's hawklike face was expressionless. Swish! One point. Swish! Another. Score: Boston 110, Los Angeles 107. The clock...
Colin Cherry, On Human Communication. New York: Wiley and M.I.T., 1957 (now in paperback...
Benjamin Lee Whorf, Language, Thought, and Reality. New York: Wiley and M.I.T...
Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Gaylord Nelson, 46, was out to slay a solon. And he had it all planned out. The intended victim was Alexander Wiley, 78, after 24 years the senior Republican in the U.S. Senate. The plan was simple: campaign energetically around the state, irk the old gentleman, let him lose his temper, and then shrug it all off as though it were pitiful proof of senility. The Nelson strategy worked...
Nelson toured Wisconsin slowly and deliberately, attacking Wiley for opposing Administration measures such as medicare and the drug bill. After the marathon session of Congress, Wiley finally got home to campaign, took Nelson's bait, and behaved as irascibly as his worst enemy could possibly have hoped. First, he called Nelson a "nitwit." Then, asked by a reporter about his stand on medicare, Wiley roared: "You keep your damn nose out of my business and I'll keep mine out of yours." At a press conference, Wiley answered a reporter's innocuous question by hollering: "Shut...