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...searchers were sure that they knew where she had been. In keeping with the bizarre nature of the entire episode, the latest chapter involved a radical athletics director named John V. Scott who had once been employed by Oberlin College in Ohio, and-the strangest touch of all-Bill Walton, the talented, eccentric 6-ft. 11-in. basketball center of the Portland Trail Blazers...
...part of another grand jury investigation in San Francisco, FBI agents questioned U.C.L.A. Graduate Walton. An enigmatic, moody man, Walton is a bitter critic of U.S. society. "I don't believe in capitalism," he said when he signed his pro contract. "I believe wealth should be spread around." Walton's deal gave him $2.5 million...
...wide-open race began with the graduation of U.C.L.A. Center Bill Walton, whose teams lost only two games in three years of conference play. Though this year's U.C.L.A. team is by no means a pushover-in 17 games it lost only twice-it is no Wooden juggernaut. "We can beat anyone-absolutely anyone," says Realist Wooden, "but lots of teams can beat...
Kelley, a low-key psychology major, is averaging 20 points per game, leads the conference in rebounding, and also paces Stanford in assists. Says John Wooden: "Kelley is every bit as valuable and as important to Stanford as Walton was to U.C.L.A...
Kelley himself is happy to be out of Walton's shadow. "This year we're playing against someone we think is human," he says, referring to Walton's successor Ralph Drollinger, 7 ft. 1 in. "Now people go out onto the court and play to win. They used to play to stay close...