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When he could play, Bill Walton was the Man Mountain of basketball, a flame-haired, 6-ft. 11-in., 225-lb. human wall beneath the basket. The true measure of his greatness was the glint in his eyes, the concentrated, almost maniacal fury that burned when he leaped to block a shot or scanned the floor before rifling an outlet pass on a fast break. That intensity made Walton one of the finest and most feared centers of his generation...
...U.C.L.A., he carried the Bruins to two national championships in three years. Yet when he joined the Portland Trail Blazers as the top pick of the draft, the dream began to unravel. Walton was plagued by injuries and played just part of his first two seasons. Caught up on the fringes of radical politics, he was questioned by the FBI when it was suspected that one of his friends had harbored Patty Hearst during her days as a fugitive. Introspective and reclusive in a world of exhibitionists, Walton was a vegetarian who preferred a lumberjack's wool shirts...
CORNELL (5-11): Hall 5 0-0 10; Tryon 1 0-0 2; Allen 5 5-5 15; Luces 7 1-3 15; Reynolds 7 1-1 15; Walton 0 0-0 0; McCarthy 0 0-0 0; Arand 0 0-0 0; Bomba 5 2-2 12. TEAM 30-50 9-11 69; 21 rebounds. HARVARD (9-4). Harris 1 2-3 4; Fleming 5 5-6 15; Carrabino 7 5-6 15; Dixon 4 3-4 11; Mannix 3 2-2 8; Trout 6 2-2 14; McCabe 0 0-0 0. TEAM...
Long before Bill Walton or Alvin Adams garnered plaudits as a new breed of center who could, lo and behold, pass the ball in addition to shooting it and retrieving it, Cowens was adding a new facet to the Celtics' offense by making them truly a five-man threat in their patterned passing game. He contributed to the offense with equal skill from the top of the key or under the basket, and was a recognized leader on a team with such pros as John Havilick and Jo Jo White...
...breakout followed by only two days a more violent melee at the refugee processing center at Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., where 200 Cubans jumped the fence. Some of them threw rocks and bricks at military police. The police eventually corralled them and isolated 68 in a more secure compound...