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...honor roll of history is full of quiet geniuses whose miraculous inventions are scorned at first sight. JACK KILBY, who died in Dallas last week at the age of 81, was no exception. His is hardly a household name, yet what this soft-spoken, 6-ft. 6-in. Missouri native pioneered--the integrated circuit--led us to the moon landing, personal computers, cell phones and the Internet. In short, the modern world. Back in 1958, computer circuits were expensive, unreliable, horribly slow and unlikely to get much faster given that transistors and other components had to be wired together...
...teammates on the locker-room wall if they neglected to meet his standards. As a coach, he is hard on the furniture. "When the players walked in the first day," recalls Payton, "Mike was standing there with his arms folded. He nodded to [Assistant] Ted Plumb, who started calling roll. I thought, 'We're in the Army now.' "Ditka, 46, is from Aliquippa, Pa., and his people are from the Ukraine, Nagurski stock. A Canadian who has lived most of his rich life just across a frozen lake in Minnesota, Bronko, 77, once claimed to have no personal knowledge...
...drill a trifle too eccentric. How many ways can there be to fall on a football? And when does anyone ever have time to think of them? Hiding one ball under stacks of tackling dummies (the princess and the pea), Berry would loose two players at a time to roll around in the mattresses until one of them came up with it. If this seems a hilarious way to practice for a football game, consider the fact that the Patriots have recovered opponents' fumbles a bountiful 33 times this season, nine in the three playoff games and four against...
...early days the outside world reached them through a battery-powered radio, and when night or the weather drew them inside, they had Fibber McGee and Molly, Gunsmoke and music. When rock 'n' roll came along, the girls liked it, but they also developed a fondness for the country tunes their father favored so. In time they began driving the 120 miles to Colorado Springs, to attend country music concerts...
...Reagan-Gorbachev meeting in Reykjavik posed a challenge. It was a big story, of course, big enough for TIME to send eight reporters and five photographers to Iceland. The meeting, moreover, was set to conclude early Sunday afternoon, well past the hour that TIME's presses normally start to roll...