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...playing at home, he explains that "it's harder to sustain a winning streak in basketball. We have tougher travel conditions and have to fight the other teams' home court advantage, which doesn't mean as much in baseball." That argument does not impress Laker Center Wilt Chamberlain, who remembers his days with the Harlem Globetrotters' traveling basketball show. "I played with them when they won all their games," he says, "and they were all on the road...
...potential N.B.A. champions ever since they settled in Los Angeles in 1960. From the start, they had two of the top shooters in N.B.A. history: Guard Jerry West and Forward Elgin Baylor. Then in 1968 when they acquired the highest scorer of all, 7-ft. 1-in. Center Wilt Chamberlain, it was generally conceded that they would be invincible. All that the Lakers proved, however, was that supershots do not make a superteam. Over the past eleven seasons, Los Angeles has advanced to the finals seven times without ever winning the championship. This year many of the preseason prognosticators gave...
...enjoying it more (his point average has dropped from a high of 50 in 1962 to a current low of 12), Chamberlain is leading the league in rebounds and setting a personal high in assists and blocked shots. "It's a different era and a different team," says Wilt. "I'm just doing what's needed...
...wholly bad or good / Who live our lives under Milk Wood, / And Thou, I know, wilt be the first / To see our best side not our worst," prays the Reverend Jenkins (Henry Goodhue) at his evening devotions. Although it is not always the role of the playwright to play God, Dylan Thomas heeded this prayer in good stead, and although it is even less the right of an audience, Chris Conte induces...
...capacity, and machine-tool men reckon that demand for their own products will not really move up until their major customers' production figures reach 80%. Another problem is that foreign competitors have been underselling U.S. manufacturers by as much as 15%. Even though Nixon's program wilt tend to equalize prices, the overseas companies will present another threat. As a result of the recent economic slowdown abroad, they have developed excess production capacity and can offer quick delivery of tools...