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...saying goes, one must not throw out the baby with the bath water. Professional football is undoubtedly a sport, which provides untold enjoyment to millions of Americans. Watching the Vikings and the Cowboys collide, many a football buff can relive those long-ago days when he played third-string tackle for David H. Hickman High School. To rob fans of these priceless moments because of the traumas which stadiums cause would be unjust indeed...
...call for the two models, wearing their unisex clothing, to mingle with 200 formally attired, champagne-sipping guests on the spacious first floor of the Butler mansion. After taking off their tank tops, Broom and Holt will linger awhile and then ascend a circular staircase to strip to the buff in full view of the onlookers. "It's a shock thing," Gernreich admits...
...that are now played in England, Scotland and Wales, and they traced their historic origins. Like many of the verses in the Opies' now-classic volumes on the origins of nursery rhymes (TIME, Dec. 5, 1955), many of today's games are centuries old. Blindman's buff, ducks and drakes, hide and seek, and tug-of-war were enjoyed by children in Plato's Greece. Ancient Egypt knew the finger-flashing game of paper-scissors-stone, still played around the world-and not only by youngsters. The universality and durability of children's games...
THESE lines by Rolfe Humphries were written in response to a TIME reader's comment on an earlier Humphries poem. The first work was commissioned by TIME and accompanied our story on the reopening of Belmont Park race track in 1968. Humphries, himself a racing buff, set down his own memories of Belmont's sights, sounds and hues. Reader Robert F. Kelley of Manhattan wrote TIME'S editors, thanking them for the poem and for "stirring the breeze of memory so that it moves a few lovely leaves on the old trees." We published the letter...
Since Navy lacks rebounding strength and has good shooting guards-6' Jack Conrad and 6' 3" Richard Buff, it runs a shuffle offense that involves numerous picks to free backcourt men for jump shots. If Harvard anticipates these screens and picks, it should be able to weaken the Midshipmen's scoring threats...