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...airbases. Here he changes his scrip for U.S. dollars, is checked out for neatness, lectured on good behavior, and then, within 24 hours, he is off. The first pleasure is climbing into big Pan Am planes, complete with tilt-back seats, pretty stewardesses and "refreshments," where privates rub elbows with colonels, and all rank goes by the board...
...casting "people who look like people" and treating each scene as "a first-run movie in miniature," Zieff has helped turn the TV commercial into something of an art form. Now if only some of this expertise would rub off on the rest of TV programming...
...avail able in his classroom, the majority were more than ten years old. Creative children had to conform to the rigid thinking of teachers or face ridicule. He cites one gentle but emotionally disturbed boy who "drew lovely lyrical cows and pleasant horses lifting up their hooves to rub their noses" but only succeeded in throwing his art teacher into a tizzy. "Look at what he's done-he's mixed up the colors!" she cried. "I don't know why we waste good paper on this child...
...Injuries. Lombardi's defense is the same solid rock, allowing just 54 points in five games, fewest in the league. The offense is the rub. In five games the Packers scored only 87 points to rank a lamentable twelfth out of 16 teams; 22 times they lost the ball on fumbles and interceptions v. 24 times for the entire 1966 season. Injury-benched Fuzzy Thurston is no longer opening up truck-size holes at guard; age appears to be robbing Forrest Gregg, Jerry Kramer and Bob Skoronski of their speed and timing. In the backfield, the Packers sorely miss...
...blame cannot be put on manufacturers; they sell at a standard price, which has increased only 7¾% since 1958. Even federal, state and local taxes, which account for more than 60% of the price of cigarettes in some areas, are not responsible for the local price variations. The rub really lies with the retailers...