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But the bookmakers, who bet no sentiments, chose the Packers by 6½ points, and that was just about right. The Packers' aces-Fullback Jim Taylor, Halfback Paul Hornung, Quarterback Bart Starr-might be weary, but they were part of a team, a disciplined professional team that plays with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Always When It Counts | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

Larkin has a poet's reverence for the small detail that shapes a scene or character. Thrust into a dentist's chair, a terrified girl imagines that the drill hovering above her has the "shape of a great hooded bird." And his small scope is deceptive. His characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Layers of Loneliness | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is to the Broadway musical comedy scene what Switzerland is to watchmaking. The mainspring in this jewel of precision is beguileful Robert Morse.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 4, 1963 | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

Beethoven: Pastoral Symphony (the Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting). A magically good performance, combining grace with precision, heart with head.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 4, 1963 | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

So far, no company has developed a system to do all its basic thinking for it, but this may come. Some new approaches: > General Precision has a new system called LOCS (Librascope Operations Control System), which it claims cuts its costs $1,000,000 a year by tightening up controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Management by Computer | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

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