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...last Sunday in the second half against the Kansas City Chiefs. Sent in to replace ineffective veteran Charley Johnson, Pastorini nearly handed the mammoth Chiefs their second upset in a row. Although he suffered two interceptions, he completed ten of 21 passes for 156 yds., including a 12-yd. flip to End Charlie Joiner and a 14-yd. pass to Joe Dawkins to set up a field goal that gave Houston a 16-13 lead with eight minutes to play. Although Kansas City scored a last-quarter touchdown to win 20-16, Pastorini left the field to a standing ovation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookies at the Helm | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

...Attica Prisoner Charles Horatio Crowley ("Brother Flip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: War at Attica: Was There No Other Way? | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

Open Contradiction. For his opponents it was one flip-flop too many. Like other observers, acidulous London Times Columnist Bernard Levin stood agape at "the spectacle of the Leader of the Opposition denouncing his own Government's application to join the EEC, and rejecting as totally unacceptable the terms which a year ago he would have been proclaiming a triumph for its skill, patience and determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Flip (Flop) Wilson | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

...permanent bronze, possesses "a strength superhuman." He can dodge a bullet, crawl up a wall like a human fly, stay under water for eight minutes, smash through an inch-thick steel door with one punch, and take on-oh, say-a hundred armed men at a time and flip them about like Frisbees with his bare hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Gore of Yore | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

...Bitch," which sounds a jot like "Live With Me," is a good rock song that opens side two of the album and is also on the flip of the American 45. (In addition to "Brown Sugar" and "Bitch," the British single includes a remake of Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock," which is not available in the U. S.) "I Got the Blues" is a good imitation Otis Redding song, but Jagger should know better than to put himself in a position to be compared with Otis...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: Vinyl Sticky Fingers Don't Smash States | 5/12/1971 | See Source »

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