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That first year. Lombardi's adrenaline-filled Packers won seven of twelve games -including, admits Hornung. "a fistful that we had no business winning." In 1960. they won the Western Conference championship with an 8-4 record, dropped a 17-13 squeaker to Philadelphia in the X.F.L. championship playoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vinnie, Vidi, Vici | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

And so on. Lover is just a stock-situation comedy, but the situation has been worked out as elegantly as a chess problem: opening gam bit, queen's sacrifice, knight rooked, mate. The same game, more or less, was played in Pillow Talk, an amusing and lucrative farce turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pillow Replumped | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

Fortnight ago, the outraged Romney could stand no more. Like a football coach behind by two touchdowns at halftime, he stormed up before several hundred Milwaukee workers waving a fistful of unfilled Rambler orders and threatening "a Milwaukee tragedy" if production did not improve fast. "Our 1962 opportunity is collapsing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: Crackdown in Milwaukee | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

Aside from a few well-publicized laggards, including most domestic oil producers and airlines, virtually all key industries have shared in the profit rise: chemicals, railroads, utilities, food, construction, steel. Last week substantial third-quarter increases over earnings a year ago were reported by American Can, Western Union, North American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Earnings: Up | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

Macario (Azteca). The Day of the Dead. All over Mexico, children are laughing and eating candy skulls. All over Mexico, Death is grinning and eating children. Through the village streets the peons carry La Muerte in sugar sculpture, larger than life. Through the land La Muerte strides, the hollow specter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dinner with Death | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

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