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P: With lanky (6 ft. 10 in.) Bill Russell mopping up the backboards, the Boston Celtics crushed the Minneapolis Lakers in four straight games to win the playoffs of the National Basketball Association, justify the claim of winning Coach Red Auerbach that they were "the greatest team in the history of the sport."

P: After nine weeks of record-setting races that established the sharply banked track as the fastest in the world--and killed two drivers--officials of the spanking-new 27-mile Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway concluded the track was too fast for the powerful Indianapolis-type cars, indefinitely canceled future events for the class. Conceded Driver Tony Bettenhausen: "There ain't any room for mistakes on that track, no place."

P:Sudden as a quick kick, smiling Eddie Erdelatz quit as Navy's football coach after futilely protesting the number of restrictions on his team (e.g., the cancellation of special pre-term classes). He left behind a sparkling nine-year record of 50 wins v. 26 defeats, and a scramble for one of the game's best jobs.

P: At an exhibition in Tempe, Ariz., 18-year-old Dallas Long, the University of Southern California's prodigious freshman (6 ft. 5 in., 245 Ibs.), sent the 16-lb. shot soaring 64 ft. 2 in., unofficially smashing the world's record by the startling margin of a full foot.

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