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Martucci. who expects other teams to try to contro the ball and throw short passes, feels he and Hurley aren't quite as fast as last year's safeties but are better tacklers. He has been awaiting today's game eagerly to see how good the defensive backfield...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Martucci, Ignacio Appear Ready To Bolster Defensive Backfield | 9/27/1969 | See Source »

...Erwin Piscator, 72, German director-producer and theatrical gadfly who in the 1920s made Berlin's theater ring with the cries of tortured humanity in such productions as the bitingly antiwar Good Soldier: Schweik (1928), fled the Nazis in 1933, but returned after the war to continue his contro versial themes, most notably in 1963, when he staged the world premiere in Berlin of The Deputy, Rolf Hochhuth's stinging indictment of Pope Pius XII's wartime attitude toward Jews; of a ruptured gall bladder; in Starnberg, Bavaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 8, 1966 | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...emphasized that the creation of: stable government is a battle for contro of the stomachs rather than the minds of the people. The Africans' desire for social equality, particularly on the economic level, is dominant now that independence had been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams Says U.S. Should Try To Boost Independence in Africa | 3/20/1965 | See Source »

Discussion of Mary's relationship to the church was the session's first contro versial order of business, after an impressive solemn pontifical Mass concelebrated by Pope Paul VI and 24 other bishops, and a demand for speed by council officials. To help nudge matters along, the popular coffee bars on each side of the aula were not opened until 11, two hours after the morning sessions begin. But the Marian question may not be easily resolved, since the council fathers are closely divided between "maximalists" and "minimalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Not to Herself, but to God | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...shade more cerebral than his former boss. An advertising expert who has also taught marketing at the University of Chicago, Peterson was a vice president of McCann-Erickson by 27, moved to Bell & Howell as executive v.p. in 1958. He originated its series of TV documentaries on such contro versial subjects as integration, and is an omnivorous reader on topics from poli tics to psychology. His chief problems today are to pull together Bell & Howell's extensive recent acquisitions in electronics and business equipment, and to reverse a two-year downtrend in profits. Already, third-quarter earnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: Personalities: Nov. 15, 1963 | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

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