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...just because we hold sports on some kind of pedestal that can't be lowered to the level of physical conflict. Particularly on a hard-wood gym floor, someone is going to get decked and seriously injured in the near future. And violence is starting to become an acceptable tactic, to some players if not to coaches. In hockey, we've had to watch Brown purposely try to remove Joe Cavanagh from play. It's generally acknowledged that if you get into a fight you make sure you "take someone good" with you from the other team. Downfield blocking...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: A Touch of Garlic | 1/28/1972 | See Source »

...protect himself Nixon must either convince the nation that his proposals were sound but were sabotaged by Democrats, or he must seek compromises with Congress and claim credit for the resulting legislation. At the outset of the new session, compromise seems to be Nixon's tactic. Says one of his legislative aides: "Our strategy will be to change if necessary, get the President's name on legislation and share the credit rather than fight totally and be hit on the head with it during the campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Opening of the Showdown Session | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...years there has not been an execution in the U.S. This unofficial moratorium, which currently affects 696 prisoners, is the result of an intricately planned campaign that used every possible legal tactic or argument. Even before that, however, the number of executions had been decreasing markedly. From a 1935 high of 199, the annual total shrank to 76 in 1955, 56 in 1960 and two in 1967, when the moratorium began. Meanwhile, Great Britain has joined a worldwide trend toward abolition, and Canada has followed suit (except for killers of on-duty policemen and prison guards) as a five-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Death Penalty: Cruel and Unusual? | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...technicians and production people with the single-minded drive of an electronic Vince Lombardi. He is studying game films and continually revising his play book, a 36-page treatment of the deployment and minute-by-minute moves of men and equipment. In the TV equivalent of a football tactic known as "flooding the secondary," he will scatter 15 cameras, 40 microphones and 84 TV monitors around the stadium-the most equipment ever amassed for a football game. In the CBS control room, Verna will continually monitor shots taken by each of his cameramen. All through the game he will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Time of the Television Football Freak | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...love to give and the courage to offer it, come work with your brothers." So far, says Lupo, a "gratifying number" of responses has poured into the Trinitarians' U.S. headquarters in Pikesville, Md., more than for any ad the order has ever run in more conventional outlets. The tactic has drawn some grumbles from within the order, but Father Lupo says: "I wanted to reach college guys and to get the most mileage for my advertising dollar." It remains to be seen whether the Playboy recruits-if they persist in their interest-will gladly embrace one of the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tidings | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

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