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...return to the servile systems of church-dominated countries. Yet it seems that most people, including some deluded Protestants, are falling over one another in their haste to lose their freedom. Your choice of Pope John as the Man of the Year is in keeping with this great step backward...
...Hollywood lion named Zamba, who looks as though he came from F.A.O. Schwarz and waddles like a middle-aged millionaire stuffed with Chateaubriand and Trancopal-what's more, while on location in Kenya he nibbled daintily on breast of chicken and disdainfully refused to associate with those poor, backward, underdeveloped African lions...
...Heart of my heart," crooned Massachusetts' junior Senator from the middle of the dance floor. "Alouette," he began, jabbing the air with his forefinger like a President, to get everyone singing in the proper sequence. Someone struck up a limbo, and Teddy craned backward under a broom with the best of them. With or without benefit of Kennedys, it was like that in the bars all over town-conviviality rather than disorder, the young mingling easily with their elders and betters...
...field with a rarely used play. "IG84-weak tackle look," Quarterback Beathard muttered in the huddle. The Trojans lined up over the ball-and, way out on the right wing, a U.S.C. back casually stepped up into the line. At the same instant. Left End Bedsole took a step backward, thereby making Tackle Butcher a legal pass receiver-for that one play. The notion of a tackle catching a pass never occurred to the befuddled Badgers. All alone in the Wisconsin secondary. Butcher gathered in Beathard's lazy little toss and jumped high with joy -right into...
From its year-long guide to what's going in books, theater, cinema, records and television, TIME takes a backward look at 1962's ten best in each field...