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...cheerleaders will be chosen at a competition tonight in the Radcliffe gym at 8 p.m. All interested Cliffies may try out; no previous experience is necessary...
...weighs 235 Ibs.; over the course of three seasons at Manhattan's Power Memorial Academy, he scored 2,067 points and pulled down 2,002 rebounds. He had scholarship offers from some 60 colleges, and when he made his choice last week, newsmen crammed the Power gym to hear the announcement. "I have chosen U.C.L.A.," intoned Alcindor. "It has the atmosphere I wanted, and the people out there were nice...
...colleges made him offers, and the University of Southern California assigned Old Grads Long and Parry O'Brien to take the prize prospect in tow. They proudly showed him the library, the dormitories, all those long-legged girls. Pity. They should have spent more time showing him the gym...
They did at A. & M. in College Station, Texas, where the gym is a big attraction. The nearest bottle of liquor is seven miles away, and the sidewalks seem to roll up of their own accord at 6 p.m. "I wanted a place where I could study and train and nothing else," explains Shotputter Matson, a gentle giant who calls everybody "sir" or "ma'am" and hardly goes anywhere without bringing along his pet shot in a brown bowling bag. As far as he's concerned, the M in A. & M. stands for Emil Mamaliga, 44, an assistant...
...people who could not conceivably exist. But beneath the deceptive surface lurks the insistent point that reality and surreality are separated by no more than a crack in the sidewalk. Ishmael Ramos, for instance, is a young Puerto Rican who works in the boiler room at the Columbia University gym and for whom reality is wearing an undergraduate's outfit and rooting for Columbia's football team. He does not understand the game; it is enough that the Lions' miserable performance provides a stern test of his elected involvement in life. After the Lions lose...