Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Tarkenton and Jones sparking an offense that has averaged 25 points per game, and a rapidly maturing defense that is beginning to resemble the fearsome, head-butting New York squads of the late '50s, the Giants are on their way to their first winning season in five years. They left Dallas with a record of six victories and three loss es, trailing the Cowboys by only one game in the race for the N.F.L.'s Capitol Division title. And they have one more date with the Cowboys on Dec. 15. The way the schedule shapes...
...Columbia soon after Barzun completed his manuscripts. He is noticeably cool to student rioters, although he sympathizes with some of their protests. So many professors are busy with activities outside the classroom, he says, that they have become guilty of slipshod teaching, poor preparation, dull lectures, careless assignments, late markings and a cavalier attitude that eventually justifies the anger of revolutionary undergraduates at a depersonalized system...
...large programs of urban renewal and race relations, engaging in the improvement of- housing and rehabilitation of moral derelicts, uplifting economically depressed areas, or supplying art to the community-all this without evidence that they are equipped with the talent, organization or experience to succeed." Barzun agrees with the late Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset that the university "has abandoned almost entirely the teaching or transmission of culture...
Divorced. Troy Donahue, 32, idol of the race-you-to-the-beach-house-for-a-Pepsi set (A Summer Place, Palm Springs Weekend); by Starlet Valerie Allen, 28, on grounds of mental cruelty (Val said he was always late to dinner); after two years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
Jerry Kramer slaves for the Green Bay Packers-the football equivalent of the Radio City Rockettes-a group that habitually barters personal freedom for perfection. His tamer has been an emotional virtuoso named Vince Lombardi, a cross between the late General Patton and a good Italian mama: a raging, weeping computer who can get his players down on Tuesday, up on Wednesday, buried on Thursday and winning on Sunday, virtually at will...