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Ts & Splits. With so much dogged making of muscle and butting of heads, fans are often fooled into thinking that football is a game for muscleheads. The men who play for Duffy Daugherty know differently. On autumn Saturdays, when the chips are down, the Spartans play a game as intricate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Driving Man | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

Who gives a tinker's damn about this Hong Kong? It is TIME that makes itself revoltingly obnoxious by always butting in and trying to "protect" this mere island when it is really none of its damn business. If you guys are so crazy about defending the place, why...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1956 | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Adenauer, toying with his glass of champagne, replied tartly. He could not resist a dig at the party boss, still butting in from the side. "Herr Khrushchev," said the German, "has never put a leaf in front of his mouth ... It is not his manner." "But I don't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Germans & the Russians | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

(3 of 3) happens. On the next try, the one who rolled first now rolls second. If, improbably, the eggs do touch, then the owners go into Phase 2 of the competition. This is identical to egg picking, another old Easter custom. In egg picking (or butting) one competitor holds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Oomancing Monday | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

Tough-minded Textileman Royal Little, 58, says he got bald the hard way: by "butting into stone walls." As boss since 1928 of Textron, Inc., he built up a $55 million firm on the theory that what the textile industry needed was a fully integrated company that produced everything from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Through a Stone Wall | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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