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Forty years ago, when a decent pair of what used to be called sneakers went for about $5, good college basketball players were about the size of say, Republican Senator Bob Dole, 59, who in his days at the University of Kansas was a guard when the school won the Big Six championship. Today the shoes would set you back $40 plus, and college basketball stars look more like Georgetown University's 7-ft. center Pat Ewing, 20. For the past two summers, Ewing has been playing down his awesome height in an attempt to assume the disguise of a mild-mannered intern with Dole's Senate Finance Committee. Like other interns, the sophomore runs errands, helps out at committee hearings, does research and fits right in. Says the 6-ft. 2-in. Dole: "In Washington it's good to have friends in high places."
—By E. Craydon Carter