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Sport: Wilt the Stilt

Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen, veteran basketball coach at the University of Kansas, turned 70 last month. As might be expected, he celebrated his birthday by watching a basketball game. It was quite a party. Phog saw his varsity soundly trounced, by the K.U. freshmen 81-71— and yet he was the happiest man in the jampacked fieldhouse. Not that Phog likes to lose, but it was pure pleasure for him to watch the biggest freshman of them all, Wilton Chamberlain (7 ft. 2 in., 230 Ibs.), dunk in 42 points all by himself. In 39...

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