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...playmaker on any court; Bill Russell seems to own the backboards with nearly 24 rebounds a game; Sam Jones averages 20 points a game; and John Havlicek is the odds-on favorite for Rookie of the Year honors. Yet other teams have their full share of stars. By common consent. Auerbach is the difference in the Celtics, the man who makes them the best team in basketball...
Glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. (1934) It was by acting as the inflexible champion of the nation and the state that it was possible for me to gather the consent, even the enthusiasm, of the French, and to win from foreigners respect and consideration. Those who were offended by this intransigence were unwilling to see that for me the slightest wavering would have brought collapse. Limited and alone though I was, I had to climb to the heights and never then to come down. (1940, describing his wartime leadership) Every man of action...
...failing to make an honorable peace, we acquiesce in the proposition that news is a dispensable commodity like soap, then we shall be treated like soap peddlers and deserve it. Values and duties have become so con fused that even the suggestion of publishing without the consent of the unions is now regarded as a declaration of war. How the old editors who founded our press would have hooted at that...
...illegally" administering medicine to the sick, or admitting orphans to mission compounds. Missionaries are forbidden to conduct services outside their churches, must get written permission from local authorities before leaving their communities. They may not build new chapels; nor may they baptize children under 18 without getting parents' consent...
...spots, she is part of a freshman class that includes East Germany's Prince Von, who puts skates on his hands and glides down two wires from roof to floor, and Mexico's Señor Antonio, the first aerialist in Ringling history to consent to do a hand stand while swinging on a trap bar at the top of the arena. As a child of the circus, Vicki Unus is proud to be La Toria and take her place among them-and among such old B.&B. stars as Harold Alzana, the high wire king, Trevor Bale...