Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Block & Tackle. Around the gracious, red brick campus, the football area is known tersely as "Vaught's Valley." Into the valley each afternoon strides Coach Vaught, his square shoulders bulging a red sweatshirt out of shape, to teach a brand of football that is as tough as he looks-and as tough as he himself once played. Back at Texas Christian they still remember one tackle made in 1932 by All-America Guard Vaught that left both the ball carrier and himself lying senseless on the field. "I'm a fundamentalist," Vaught says. "I believe in perfection...
...longtime preoccupation with the shape of the human figure has reached from Fletcher's mastication diet of the early 1900s to Elmer Wheeler's Fat Boy calorie counter of the '50s, but no diet fad has ever taken the U.S. so overwhelmingly as the craze for the food supplement Metrecal (TIME, Oct. 3) and its sister brands. Across the nation last week, drugstores and supermarkets were clamoring for fresh carload deliveries to accommodate the growing hordes of Schmoo-shaped addicts who were insisting on guzzling their way to the vanishing point. Cried a happy druggist...
Some neutral-leaning countries wandered down more romantic trails. Burbled the Ceylon Observer: "A new generation, has now taken command. It is their destiny that the Nassers, the Nkrumahs, the Castros and the Kennedys will shape." All over Latin America, despite Kennedy's interventionist threat in Cuba (snapped Castro's official newspaper Revolución: "Four years of a rich illiterate"), his victory was hailed jubilantly as "a return to the policies of Franklin Roosevelt." In India and Malaya, neutralist Kennedy fans thought he really favors, as they do, recognition of Red China...
...idea first took shape in 1956 at New York's now-famed Junior High School 43 (TIME, Oct. 12, 1959), where only 40% of the predominantly Negro and Puerto Rican students went on to graduate from senior high school. They came from families of six people living in one room, where dinner was likely to be one hamburger per child, served from a paper bag. Could such youngsters be college material...
WITHIN hours after the pattern of the election returns began to take shape, this special issue-the first extra in TIME'S history-went to press. It is the product of weeks of long-range planning and hours of intensive work...