Word: passers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Considering the 9-1 season that Notre Dame had in 1964, last year was practically a disaster. Quarterback John Huarte, the Heisman Trophy-winning passer, had graduated; so had All America End Jack Snow. The Fighting Irish had nothing left except a speedy halfback in Nick Eddy, a pile-driving fullback in Larry Conjar, and a rock'em, sock-'em offense that ground out the yardage but excited nobody. Notre Dame wound up with a 7-2-1 record, losing to Purdue and Michigan State, playing Miami...
Intimate Lighting is another exquisite Czech comedy by one of the scenarists of Loves of a Blonde, 33-year-old Director Ivan Passer. Slight but abrim with self-assurance, the film simply jogs along delightfully from moment to moment, following a young middle-aged musician, Peter, who takes his cello and his mistress to the country for a day or so, intending to play a concert with his former classmate, Bambas...
Little happens, except what Passer calls "life as it is, unheroic, unexceptional but nonetheless interesting." More than interesting, Lighting reflects a humanist tradition seldom seen on the screen since the early films of René Clair, Renoir and De Sica. The young city visitors quicken the tempo of existence for Bambas' family. Everyone goes off to supply music at a country funeral. Later the menfolk, including Grandpa, get together with the village pharmacist to form a string quartet in a rehearsal sequence that is disrupted by intramural arguments and arthritic aches, with additional time called by Peter...
...holdout who really rattled the rafters was Quarterback John Brodie of the San Francisco 49ers, No. 1 passer in the N.F.L. last year. Before the merger, Brodie had accepted a threeyear, $750,000 contract to play for the A.F.L.'s Houston Oilers. His deal was abrogated by the merger. Brodie took a trip to Hawaii, hired San Francisco Attorney John Elliott Cook to represent him, and threatened a court action against the merger unless somebody coughed up the $750,000 he had been promised-plus damages...
Scores to Settle. The Chargers ranked No. 1 in the league both in total offense and total defense. They had the A.F.L. 's top passer in Quarterback John Hadl, the top rusher (1,121 yds.) in Halfback Paul Lowe, the best pass receiver in Flanker Lance Alworth, and a monstrous (276 Ibs. per man) defensive line anchored by the biggest man in football: 6-ft. 9-in., 315-lb. Ernie Ladd. What's more, they had already clobbered the Bills once this season, 34-3. The odds makers made San Diego a 6½-point favorite. "According...