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...knock your block off." Only slightly less menacing is Archer, a pass rusher who "mauls" offensive linemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: DEFENSE | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...start with the head butt, driving their helmets into the heads of the opposite offensive linemen like bull moose battling for their lives. Once the offensive lineman has been hit, each man has a specialty. Greenwood likes to use the "slip" move, pushing past his blocker. White prefers to knock his opponent aside with an "uppercut" shove under the shoulder. Holmes is a master of the "club," using one of his blacksmith forearms to belt a blocker to the side, and the "push and pull," in which he pushes a guard off balance and then pulls him aside. Greene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HALF A TON OF TROUBLE | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...decided he might be "a CIA Rhodesian spy." Griggs has covered the independence of nine other former colonies since his first African assignment 16 years ago, so he knew just what to do when soldiers began carrying out predawn identity checks at his hotel. "When the first 4 a.m. knock came, I obeyed a longstanding rule of mine for interruptions at that hour. I didn't answer but waited for the second and third knocks, standing clear of the door in case the caller knocked it down or shot through it. Finally I opened the door, purposely stark naked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 1, 1975 | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...addition to his powerful mechanical legs and zoom-lens artificial eye, television's Six Million Dollar Man has an atomic-powered arm that can knock down walls, lift cars and pull out trees by the roots. Reid Hilton's new arm is only slightly less remarkable−and considerably less expensive. Hilton, 24, a Santa Ana, Calif., karate expert who lost his right arm below the elbow in an accident, will probably not risk smashing bricks with his experimental $40,000 replacement. But the prosthesis should enable him, with practice, to function like a man with two natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The $40,000 Arm | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

That Brown in particular is providing the opposition for the crown makes the game all the more significant to Harvard. Lately the Bruins have received more favorable publicity than any other team around, and the Crimson would like nothing better than to knock the Bruins off their pedestal...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Crimson Psyched for Bruin Contest | 11/15/1975 | See Source »

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