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...your business?" came the curious reply. Illinois' Senator Charles Percy, Maine's Edmund Muskie and Texas' Ralph Yarborough had to stay outside the church. Auto Workers Boss Walter Reuther was shoved brusquely aside with the rest when a burly Negro marched through crying: "Make way for Wilt, everybody, let Wilt come through." Into the church, his faintly smiling face high in the breeze, stalked Basketball Star Wilt ('The Stilt") Chamberlain, 7 ft. 1 in., and invited. Football's Jim Brown, Baseball's Jackie Robinson and Olympic Decathlon Star Rafer Johnson followed in The Stilt...
John Havlicek, Sam Jones, and Bailey Howell contributed 87 of the team's point total, offsetting a 33-point, 25-rebound performance by Wilt Chamberlain...
...Faustus getting his doctorate in divinity. All his friends cheering--and then comes the sinister part. Two nefarious characters have set up a little magic booth on the side of the street. They mutter--very ominously--"Settle thy studies, Faustus, and begin to sound the depth of that thou wilt profess...
...equally mixed with cheers. If their favorites had to go down, how better than at the hands of Bobby Hull? For the sight of Robert Marvin Hull, 29, leaning into a hockey puck is one of the true spectacles of sport-like watching Mickey Mantle clear the roof, or Wilt Chamberlain flick in a basket, or Bart Starr throw that beautiful bomb. It is the thing that hockey fans go to see-whether in Chicago, Montreal or Oakland. And it is the thing that makes Bobby Hull the superstar of his blazing sport. A legion of partisans call...
Speed & Spring. Against Philadelphia and Wilt Chamberlain early in the season, Bing popped in 40 points to help the Pistons break a two-year, 16-game losing streak to the N.B.A. champions. Last month, on the night Bill Bradley was making his debut with the Knicks, Bing stole the show and the ballgame with 32 points. Last week, as the only second-year man chosen to start the N.B.A.'s All-Star game, which the East won 144-124, Bing contributed the gem of the evening. He stole a pass, drove in for a lay-up only to find...