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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predicated on the survival quotient of quarterbacks. As of last week, no fewer than 16 signal callers in the two leagues have been sidelined with injuries for one or more games. Many of the injuries, like Starr's, could hardly have been prevented. Pete Beathard of the Houston Oilers (record: 3-5-0) was rushed to the hospital last month for an emergency appendectomy, while winless Philadelphia's Norm Snead, trying to make a tackle after an interception, turned sharply and broke his ankle in a preseason game against the Detroit Lions. Baltimore has had to rely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Survival Quotient | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...think the class struggle is dead, read Barron's Business Weekly. "National Labor Relations Board Must Go," muses their September 23 front page. Not by chance did the same article appear in the Wall Street Journal, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Charlotte Observor, the Houston Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Reader's Digest...

Author: By Ruth Glushien, | Title: Dismantling NLRB | 11/6/1968 | See Source »

...this year's team hardly ranked with the star-studded squads of the past. Notably absent were the top two collegiate players of last season: U.C.L.A.'s Lew Alcindor, who pleaded pressure of studies, and Houston's Elvin Hayes, who chose to sign a $440,000 contract with the pro San Diego Rockets instead of going to Mexico. The tallest man on the starting five was 6-ft. 8-in. Spencer Hay wood, a 19-year-old sophomore from the University of Detroit. The other starters included a 24-year-old Army captain and a 28-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Seventh Straight | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Economists have long anticipated a jump in apartment building, but few expected anything like this year's surge. Rental construction has increased by 36% in Phoenix, 67% in Denver and 145% in Miami. In such metropolitan areas as Boston, Atlanta, Houston and front-running Dallas, more apartments are now going up than one-family houses. That condition has long prevailed in New York City, whose prosaic brick or concrete residential towers command attention mostly by sheer size. The current behemoth is Co-Op City, a 15,400-apartment complex now rising on the site of a former swamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housing: Landlords' Delight | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...Crimson's top team of Joel Perwin '70 and Richard Lewis '72 won a 4-1 decision over Houston in the finals at M.I.T. The Houston team had edged out Harvard's second team of Robert Daniels '69 and Patrick Gutridge '72 in a semi-final round...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Reach Finals | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

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