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...through his youth, the average U.S. college freshman of the '60s is half an inch taller than his father, and still growing. It is no surprise, says Vince Lombardi, coach of the pro champion Green Bay Packers, that "today's football player is bigger, faster and sharper mentally." Today's baseball player is bigger too. In almost every sport, the good big man is displacing the good little man. For those who are not big enough, or energetic enough, modern science lends a hand. Green Bay's Lombardi claims that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE GOLDEN AGE OF SPORT | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...cent of the students here sign. But if their past claims about increasing student "concern" and "questioning" have been correct, the proportion must be much higher. The student leaders cannot veil the crucial test of strength this petition represents. If the "mainstream" of American youth is asking sharper questions about the war, this petition is certainly inclusive enough to show the current...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Good Conscience | 5/31/1967 | See Source »

Dynamic readers also attest that the actual experience of reading is greatly changed. Evelyn Wood, who herself can read almost anything at 12,000 words per minute, describes it: "The reader becomes a part of the story....The more accurately and carefully chosen the author's words, the sharper the pictures we see and experience....Since the Wood method relies upon the total idea or thought for meaning rather than the individual words, there is no feeling of hurry or fast motion or speeded reading... as the eyes go down the page. The words go in fast, but they...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: Evelyn's Game: Any Number Can Play | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

Last week Gretel was back in the water with her new look-sharper in the bow, smaller in the keel, wider in the beam. All her crew got was the same old look: a view of Dame Panic's transom. Five times the two boats raced, and five times Pattie won-by margins ranging from 2 min. 12 sec. to 5 min. 22 sec. Owner Packer tried switching skippers; that did not seem to help either. Gretel finally did manage to win one race-when Pattie split three jibs at the seams-but experts agreed that her cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yachting: If at First. . . | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...arbitrariness of the Maost leadership has been brought into sharper focus during the purge that is being carried out at present (mid-1966). Purges or "semi-purges" in the past were carried out with a kind of surgical precision. Quite often the victims could be linked with policy disagreements (such as Ch'en Yun, the former top economic specialist who was removed from power). Previously, the language used to describe the "guilty" was stern, but usually stopped short of hysterical. Furthermore, from the point of view of the victims, there was in most cases the possibility of "rehabilitation"--not Soviet...

Author: By Donald W. Klein, | Title: Frustrated Young Leaders Pose Problems For Chinese Communists | 3/11/1967 | See Source »

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