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...dwindling water supplies. Howell immediately asked his countrymen, who now use an average of 39 gal. of water a day, to halve their consumption. He also urged Britons to spy on their neighbors and report any "abuses or misuses" of water. "The flowers are going to have to wilt," said Howell, "and cars will have to remain dirty...
Here was the old success story, notwithstanding a good measure of social irony: Horatio Alger reincarnated in a tall but otherwise physically mediocre, white boy from Crystal City, Missouri, triumphs in a black, city game played by the likes of Wilt Chamberlain. The religio-scientific devotion of the American athletic dream dug in and hurled the banker's son into collegiate, international, and eventually professional stardom. Bill Bradley knew where he was, and his stature was reaffirmed by approving nods from righteous heads across the country...
...Rolls Royce and the clothes his father would envy. Like Bradley, they are all past their peaks: not necessarily their peaks of efficiency for a pro team, but for their individual dreams of fulfillment. The pervading note is failure. It carries into the more impersonal analyses of figures like Wilt Chamberlain and Bob Cousy. Chamberlain, he says, is the paradigmatic loser; his individual achievement was more secure on a losing team, so his true wish was fulfilled. He portrays Cousy, his childhood hero heroically entering a game in 1969 to replace Oscar Robertson--and then throwing the ball away...
...Greatest is certain to raise controversy because of the candid appraisals he makes of many people. For example, in talking about Wilt Chamberlain he says, "The most outstanding feature about Wilt was that he was the world's tallest Uncle Tom, which I believe forever made him unable to cope with Bill Russell on or off the basketball court." There are also some nice vignettes about people like Mayor Daley of Chicago and former Georgia governor Lester Maddox, and others of that...
...fans had a right to dispose of their income and choose what to spend it on. Why else was it given to them? They could have spent it on Lay's potato chips or Karl Marx postcards, but if a million of them choose to give $25 to Wilt, what is wrong with that? Those who did not participate in the trade did not have their shares of income changed and if they were just before, why are they not just...