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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago's Irene Hughes saw an improved stock market and a continued war in Viet Nam. California's Sydney Omarr saw a good year for Johnson, but Omarr's principal Los Angeles rival, Carroll Righter, disagreed. Lyndon Johnson is a Virgo, noted Righter, and so his prospect will remain precarious, with the planets of Uranus and Pluto still exercising a malign influence. Said Righter, in the kind of prediction that any astrologer would agree was a wise one: "Virgos could be catapulted to the top-or to the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: Back in with the Black Arts | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...nothing subtle about the Packers. "Football is blocking and tackling," says Lombardi. "If you block and tackle better than the other people, you win." No fancy offensive formations for him, no kamikaze blitzes on defense. "You always know what those goddam Packers are going to do," says a rival coach, "but you still can't stop them - they never make mistakes." Well, almost never. "I remember that game against Minnesota last year," says Lombardi, "when we had a 7-0 lead early and went right down again to fourth and one for the goal, and decided...

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

...there is no evidence that the funnies are read in the Elysee Palace, though France's other national hero could hardly help noticing his pint-sized rival. Goscinny, a sergeant in the army reserve, has decided against sending a complimentary copy of Astérix to the general. "It would be a provocation," he said, "especially if I dedicated it to 'my dear fellow reservist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Hail the Great * ! | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...orchestral works, and musicals like Bernstein's West Side Story. Privy to all the inside news in music, he is an amiable raconteur, and his office is a hangout for composers who want to catch up on the latest gossip or get an instant reading on a rival's work. "Any opera with that many tremolos can't be good," Arnie will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scores: Copy Cat | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...Three major steel companies-Dorman Long, South Durham Steel and Iron, and Stewarts and Lloyds-agreed to fuse into a group that will rival the new steel titans on the Continent, be capable of producing a quarter of Britain's steel needs. The merger was prompted by the demand for pipe created by newly found North Sea gas. Short of pipe capacity, Stewarts and Lloyds and South Durham plan to use Dorman Long's new plate plant at Lackenby as a source of supply. Since that is just the kind of resource pooling that the nationalization-bent government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Marriages of Necessity | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

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