People: Mar. 16, 1970

"We'll employ the Agnew hook," said Arizona's Morris Udall, co-captain of the Democrats' congressional basketball team. "This ploy," he explained, involves "intimidating scowls and feigned throws at the press table, followed by a wild charge to the south end of the court while shouting slogans, epithets and five-syllable words. While the ball occasionally ends up in my mouth, 65% of the fans who have watched this maneuver approve of it." Another Udall tactic was "the Haynsworth-Carswell shuffle—sending in a series of second and third stringers, one after another, until one of them scores." Neither Udall's wit nor his jump shot—he was...

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