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...N.F.L. - which scheduled a play-off on nationwide TV for the same afternoon that the San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills were to battle it out for the championship of the rival American Football League. Poor A.F.L. Last week, in 74 minutes of crunching football, the Packers managed to eke out a 13-10 victory over a wounded but still ferocious Colts team that was making do with a converted halfback at quarterback, and thereby earned the right to play the Cleveland Browns for the league title. An estimated 30 million TV fans watched the Colts-Packers exhibition...
Forge of the Angels. Felled by a heart attack in 1948 and forced to eke out a living, Costantini set up a shop, like many of those lining the Piazza San Marco, selling the gaudy souvenirs that today pass for Venetian glass. "I suffered," he says. No one needed to remind him that Murano, an island in the Venetian Lagoon still crowded with furnaces, had once been the capital of the glassmaking world. The problem was to restore art to the craft, and Costantini decided to persuade contemporary artists to supply designs for the glassmakers left on Murano...
...Andy scarcely seemed destined to reach Fifth Avenue drawing rooms. Pale beyond the pale and shy to the point of sequestration, he arrived in New York at the age of 24 as a struggling artist with little training and less money. Gradually he earned enough through advertising illustration to eke out a comfortable bohemian existence on the Lower East Side. When the art world suddenly went pop in 1962, Andy found himself lionized by the white-tie world of the Museum of Modern Art. But he cut few social capers, clung to the company of fellow artists...
...preaches a form of rebellion that never loses sight of individual values. "It's important to recognize in the struggle certain humanitarian values," Moses told Warren, "to recognize that you have to struggle for people, and at the same time-if it's possible-you try to eke out some corner of love or some glimpse of happiness within. And that's what I think more than anything else conquers the bitterness...
...February 8, 1964 God smiled on the Harvard quintet. The Crimson scored one of its greatest victories in history on that memorable night by beating Princeton, 88 to 82. But no repeat last year's amazing upset, or even to eke out one victory during this four-game stretch, would require providential intervention that would astound a Jonathan Edwards...