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...Dark Ages, and then stayed rooted there well into this century. Originally extensions of churches and monasteries, set up to train some boys as choristers and others as clergy, the schools were anachronistic by the 16th century. Their curriculum consisted of little but the classics, drilled by rote into chilled, hungry, stupefied boys...
...played in the N.F.L.'s electrifying, first-ever overtime final in 1958 (the Colts won, 23-17). On hand were such Baltimore ex-greats as Johnny Unitas, 45, Raymond Berry, 45, and Gino Marchetti, 51. On the Giants side were Charley Conerly, 56, Frank Gifford, 47, and Kyle Rote, 50. Primed on beer and banter, the Baltimoreans puffed and passed to a 28-14 victory, overcoming such verbal assaults as that made by Referee Sonny Jurgensen on Marchetti: "Wait a minute, Gino. Your stomach's offside!" Then all retired to a picnic. Kyle Rote summed up the sweaty...
...Thomas Beecham, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, he rarely extracts a witticism and never an insight. "Have you opened all your wedding gifts?" he asks the newlywed Kennedys in 1953. He then goes on to stock questions that permit the young Senator to rattle off his policy positions by rote. Murrow's notion of challenging Bogart, Bacall and Monroe is to ask them to name their favorite film roles. He even allows Harpo Marx to make all his responses in mime; the audience, no doubt, had tuned in with the expectation that Harpo would speak...
Soccer experts point to Dallas' Kyle Rote Jr., 27, the most celebrated product of American soccer, as the archetypal home-grown player. Son of a legendary football running back and pass catcher, Rote did not take up soccer until he was 16, and then only as an off-season conditioning program for football. Although he still lacks the finesse of foreign-born players, Rote has diligently taught himself to play the difficult striker position. Says N.A.S.L. Commissioner Phil Woosnam, a Welshman who used to be a pro in England and was among the first-and most durable-soccer missionaries...
...professor at Yale and Stanford who was a chief proponent of the "new math"; of emphysema; in Palo Alto, Calif. As head of the School Mathematics Study Group, an organization with nearly $10 million in Government grants, Begle emphasized the theoretical principles of the number system in addition to rote calculation learned in traditional math...