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...make them tens, and changing other bills into century notes. They even peddle U.S. currency in brown, blue and beige. In Yugoslavia, a batch of grey hundred-dollar bills printed up for a movie were soon fetching $120 worth of dinars on the black market. Another Eastern European buck passer got away with putting some pink "play money" into circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: How to Make Money | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...Knees. A six-year veteran, Tarkenton was the No. 2 passer in the N.F.L. in 1964, with 171 completions in 306 attempts for 2,506 yds. and 22 touchdowns. Last year, though the Vikings had a poor 4-9-1 season, he still passed for 2,561 yds. and led the Vikings to a 20-17 victory over the Green Bay Packers, one of only two games the world champions lost all year. He is known in the trade as a "scrambler," who would just as soon run as throw, who can turn a potential 10-yd. loss into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Right Between the Ears | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

...game) last year. This year, his main job is to get the ball to Alcindor, and his own scoring average has slipped to 12.5. "Mike is even more valuable as a floor leader," says U.C.L.A. Coach John Wooden. "He brings the ball up court; he is an exceptionally fine passer; he can dribble to his right and left better than any player I've ever had." > St. John's University's Albie Swartz is described in the game programs as 5 ft. 10 in. tall and 175 Ibs. Unless he is still growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: Look Who's Down There | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

...average, were younger, bigger and probably stronger than the Packers -whose ground game had not been much to brag about all year, anyhow. That led naturally to Fact Two: Packer Quarterback Bart Starr, who completed 62% of his passes during the regular season, was the No. 1 passer in pro football. So Green Bay was going to the air. Fact Three: the Chiefs' cornerbacks on defense were vulnerable; they were "gambling," trying to cover Green Bay's wide receivers too tightly-mostly because they were forced into single man-on-man coverage by the blitzing tactics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Football: And Still Champions | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...clinch the N.F.L.'s Western Division championship. Halfback Paul Hornung, 30, and painfully burdened by a pinched nerve in his neck, is still, by the consensus of his fellow pros, "the greatest money player in the game." And Quarterback Bart Starr, at 32, is the No. 1 passer in the N.F.L. (156 completions in 251 attempts, for 2,257 yds.); last week he was voted the most valuable player in the league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Football: Pro Pecunia Sunt | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

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