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...recalls the days when as a gawky youngster in Rayville, La., he spent long hours in his backyard shooting a small rubber ball through a bottomless wash bucket. He was always dreaming of his idols, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, and today he talks of little but how "great, just great" it is to be playing against them...
...four-hour program without the help of his running mate. To make sure that Agnew did not feel slighted, however, Nixon was almost comically extravagant in his praise. The Marylander, said Nixon, "is a man with brains. He's a man of very great courage. He doesn't wilt under fire." Meanwhile, Agnew campaigned in Virginia, then flew home to Maryland, where he relaxed on Election Day on the golf course, and gave a party in Government House, the official mansion, for 150 campaign workers...
Then, a few years ago, the paper began to wilt. The exposes became rarer, the style more turgid. Weary of the 40,000-word weekly grind, Dugger turned to more leisurely writing, including a soon-to-be-published book about Lyndon Johnson. His most gifted cronies took off in other literary directions. Robert Sherrill baited the occupant of the White House with The Accidental President and Gothic Politics in the Deep South. Larry King began a successful career as a freelance writer and gadfly. Perhaps the greatest loss was Morris, who headed for New York in 1963, wrote North Toward...
...interview on TV. Explains Cosell: "I'm an electronic first. I've gotten where I've gotten in the world of sport just by applying the prin ciples of journalism." He does get his share of scoops; he was the first, for ex ample, to report Wilt Chamberlain's move from the Philadelphia 76ers to the Los Angeles Lakers. But it is more his capacity for outrage than reporting that makes Cosell so hard to turn...
Scratch was the cause of Wilt's itchy feet. Coming up to contract time, he demanded from the Philadelphia 76ers not his usual $250,000 yearly salary but a piece of the team. Philadelphia Owner Irv Kosloff was willing to pay him the salary, but balked at making him a partner, so he traded Wilt to the Los Angeles Lakers, whose owner Jack Kent Cooke did not need a partner either. What Cooke needs is an N.B.A. Championship, so he offered Wilt a five-year contract totaling an estimated $1,500,000. Cooke now owns three superstars: Elgin Baylor...