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...popular, even irresistible figure: outgoing, unpretentious, effervescent. A member of one of Maryland's oldest families, he grew up on Staten Island in New York City. As a teenager, he became a star tennis player. He graduated from Williams College with honors and married a Vassar beauty, Gail Nicholas, who shared his conservative political views. While working in a management-consultant firm in Chicago, he earned a master's degree in business administration...
George F. Carrier, Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics, will head the committee examining the Commission. The other members of the committee are Ackerman, Philip Gelston '74, Johnson, Paul, Isadore Twersky, Littaeur Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, and Gail Pierson, assistant Professor of Economics. Pierson and Paul are not members of the Commission...
Virginia Akabane '69, entered the tournament seeded third, just edging out 15-year-old Gail Ramsey of Bala Cynwd, Pa., who is ranked third nationally, and fourth in the championship contest...
...have Wooden's teams, both tiny and tall, lost only 15 of 281 over the past decade? Former U.C.L.A. players who have graduated to the pros cite various reasons. Milwaukee Bucks' Abdul-Jabbar: "His ability to coach and develop talent is unparalleled." Los Angeles Lakers' Gail Goodrich: "He molds five different personalities into one." Milwaukee's Lucius Allen: "He takes basketball and breaks it into all the little fundamentals." Los Angeles' Keith Erickson: "He's the kind of man you believe in, a man you would like...
...rival coach, "is based on upsetting the tempo and style of his opponent. He does it by running, running and running some more. He mixes that up by ball hawking, by grabbing, by slapping and by hand-waving defense. His clubs dote on harassing the man with the ball." Gail Goodrich, for one, well remembers the grind imposed by "Mr. Run." "There were nights when I'd come home from practice so tired I'd be lucky to get my clothes off. Exhausted. Totally exhausted. But that tremendous practice tempo would prevail in the games. Coach Wooden...