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...richly voweled music breaks from her. But her face is too fleshy, her stature too mean to be a princess. She stamps and pouts too much. Here is this woman, who should be a cistern of demonic forces, and she lets you think she quarrels over prices at the butcher...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: The Master Builder | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

That shot more or less typifies Bing's style. He is not a long-range shooter, lobbing them in from 20 to 25 ft. away. Piston Coach Donnie Butcher says that two or three other Piston players are more accurate shots. What Bing developed at Washington, D.C.'s Spin-garn High School and later at Syracuse, is the whippet-like speed and agility with which he slides past, spins around, or ducks under bigger, clumsier defenders, as he drives in for close-range lay-ups and hooks. He also has fantastic spring. When he uncoils and jumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: Power for the Pistons | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

...have to stick him together with Elmer's Glue-All. A couple of years ago, the Pistons occasionally had trouble luring 1,000 people into Cobo Arena to see them play. This year, attendance averages 7,500, and six times has topped the 10,000 mark. As Coach Butcher says: "We may not win it all, but we sure aren't going to be last any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: Power for the Pistons | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

Five years ago, in Langenberg, West Germany, a teen-age butcher's apprentice confessed to a Roman Catholic priest that he had murdered an eight-year-old boy. During the confession, and in subsequent conversations, the priest urged the murderer to turn him self in and refused him absolution until he did so. The youth would not. Bound by canon law to observe the church's tradition that nothing said in confession may ever be disclosed, the priest was helpless to protest publicly. Yet in the next four years, three more chil dren in the Langenberg area were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: How Secret the Confessional? | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...victims were boys, all had been lured away from carnivals, all had been killed in an abandoned air-raid shelter. On the witnessstand, Bartsch described in detail how he had attempted anal intercourse with two of the boys, masturbated over them, then slaughtered the children as a butcher would a steer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: How Secret the Confessional? | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

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