Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largely because he had perfect taste and a disregard for fashion. For one thing, he never confused expressiveness with frenzy, the way Wilson Pickett often seems to do. Redding was absolutely uncompromised. He never felt obliged to cater to night-club audiences in the way Ray Charles does and Sam Cooke--who died three years to the day before Redding--did (though Cooke was coerced by the orientation of the company he recorded for). Redding was infinitely far from the frame of mind which characterizes the Motown corporation with its grossly defective cultural antennae. Motown will naively release its first...
...stirred complaints that he was becoming "King Lyndon." Historians and Congressmen alike began wondering whether the presidency had not grown too strong. Next month a group of historians led by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. will meet in Manhattan to consider that very subject. In the Senate, North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin began an inquiry into the division of federal powers, while Fulbright looked into the "overextension of executive powers...
Heroes in the Pits. Not that there haven't been defensive stars before. Washington Redskins Linebacker Sam Huff has been a popular figure for years, and Larry Wilson of the St. Louis Cardinals practically holds the patent on the safety blitz. But they are the visible parts of the defense. What six-year-old could fail to spot a blitzing safety man or cheer a cornerback's one-handed interception. The difference is that knowledgeable football buffs have now found a whole new pantheon of heroes in the heart of the defense: the front four linemen, the immense...
...always brutality. A favorite trick is the "vacuum pop"-clapping his hands over the earholes of an offensive player's helmet. Another is the karate chop, delivered with a beefy forearm encased in layers of tape. "You try not to let it get too personal," says Defensive End Sam Williams of the Atlanta Falcons. "But what the up-front struggle really amounts to is an angry, private little war between two people...
...feet one-inch tall and 230 Ibs. wide, and there he was, blubbering like an onion peeler right out where everybody could see him. Pro football really can make strong men cry, and Washington Redskins Linebacker Sam Huff's turn came as he announced his retirement after a brutal twelve-year career, during which he made All-Pro five times. Now 33, Defenseman Huff (TIME Cover, Nov. 30, 1959) went from West Virginia to eight years of stardom with the New York Giants, playing on five championship teams, before he was traded to Washington four years ago. "Everyone...