¶ 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."
¶ After nine weeks of record-setting races that established the sharply banked track as the fastest in the worldand killed two driversofficials 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....
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