Word: idolized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco's Kezar Stadium last week stocky, swarthy Vince Lombardi, late of Brooklyn, made himself the idol of the state of Wisconsin. With Halfback Paul Hornung scoring every point, Coach Lombardi's Green Bay Packers won a 13-0 victory over the San Francisco Forty-Niners. The win put the surprising Packers in first place in the National Football League's Western Conference, set them up for a finish fight with 1959's champion Baltimore Colts...
...songs in each) are packaged in bakery boxes, the sort crumb cake comes in. Visible through a large round cellophane inset are F. & F.'s Vinylite heads, whose unblemished cheeks are supposed to feel like skin but actually feel like soapstone and smell like Mr. Clean. Each idol is mounted on a cardboard plaque covered with artificial suede and can be hung by a brass ring on a bedroom wall...
...Getting plenty of campaign help from the idol of Arizona conservatives, Senator Barry Goldwater, the state's cautious Republican Governor Paul Fannin overwhelmed energetic Phoenix Real Estate Millionaire Lee Ackerman to win his second term...
...priest-was generally good but rarely inspired. Conductor Thomas Schippers (who at 30 is the youngest conductor ever to open a Met season) whipped his orchestra through the score at a soprano-searing pace. The sets by Teo Otto and Wolfgang Roth were contradictory in style: an ornate realistic idol in one scene, a starkly abstract grillwork in another. Although it took in a record $91,482 at the box office, the Met's new Nabucco was not likely to join vintage Verdi in the regular repertory. One reason was suggested by Arrigo Boito, the great librettist of Verdi...
Illinois. Democrat Otto Kerner, 52, a matinee-idol Cook County (Chicago) judge with an impeccable record, is being matched against lackluster Republican Incumbent William Stratton, 46, trying for an unprecedented third term on a record tinged with statehouse scandal. Judge Kerner, the favorite, has endorsements from such normally Republican papers as the Peoria Journal Star and Rockford Star...