A former all-state basketball player and local leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Christensen, who has died aged 67 after suffering from leukaemia, was perhaps an unlikely Ivy League academic. Raised in poverty on the west side of Salt Lake City, Utah, he demonstrated a somewhat extreme brand of thriftiness, saving tray liners from fast-food restaurants and driving the same Chevy Nova for years, even though his 6ft 8in frame left him pressed against the ceiling.
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