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...anyone can be believed about basketball, it is Jerry West. Few have mastered the game as thoroughly as this open-faced country boy from West Virginia. In his 14 seasons as a player, West scored 25,192 points-a record that has been topped only by Wilt Chamberlain and Oscar Robertson. Along the way, West shoveled off 6,238 assists-meaning he gave away more points than all but a few superstars score in an entire career. Says Laker Forward Don Ford: "I watched him play on TV when I was growing up. As far as I'm concerned...
...checkups had no detectable physical decline over periods ranging from three to 13 years. Nor are new emotional and mental disorders very likely in old age: true senility is uncommon, and only 1% of the elderly can expect to become demented. Says Comfort: "The human brain does not shrink, wilt, perish or deteriorate with age.* It normally continues to function well through as many as nine decades...
...audience proved so unruly that the company had to close down. Broadway today is witness to an explosion of all-black shows, which are also being loudly and insistently stopped by their audiences. This time round the unruly, enthusiastic applause leaves performers and producers in a state of ecstatic wilt...
...Crimson managed its first sustained drive of an afternoon that would have been better spent in bed by moving from its eight to Cornell's 36. But the multiflex offense tends to wilt in the rain and the drive came to a slippery conclusion...
...poor and oppressed, particularly if it is not enforced. Non-enforcement of guidelines is an integral part of the history of Affirmative Action. When no active organized compulsion is exerted by the mass democratic movement on the government, history shows that "progressive" legislation, Affirmative Action included, will rot and wilt before it is enforced...