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Their styles of football contrast sharply. Yovicsin is known as a superb technician, particularly on defense. A Yovicsin offense means several extravagant variations on a basically ground-oriented attack. Blackman--with a little help from Life--has built a reputation as a magician, with an astonishing number of formations based on precise blocking and ball-handling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blackman, Yovvy Continue Rivalry With 11th Meeting | 10/28/1967 | See Source »

...microphones down to the ground. No one was hurt, and the two men, later identified as members of the American Nazi Party (Arlington, Va.), were wrestled away by marshals as the Nazis yelled, "Commies, commies, Vietcong commies," into a microphone obligingly held by a radio station technician...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: 'Demonstrations Will Never Be The Same; We've Turned The Pentagon Upside Down' | 10/25/1967 | See Source »

Classic Soof. For further evidence that plot progression is not essential for TV, the McLuhanites cite the classic goof on CBS in 1965. The network was running a Hollywood movie, The Notorious Landlady. Inadvertently, a technician played two of the three reels out of sequence. Twenty-one million people watched the show, but the network got only a peep of protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Getting the Message | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...engineering trade magazines he could find. To get some on-the-job training, he took a laborer's job at night at a caustic-soda plant being constructed by Chemico of New York. There, by his own recollection, he picked the brains of every American technician he could find. It was, he says, a "live opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Mendoza the Builder | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

Somewhat Sanguine. This was hardly enough for California Activist Pat Maginnis, 39, a medical technician who has had three abortions herself. Uninvited to the conference, she led pickets outside the Hilton Hotel and gave public lectures on self-abortion. It was her startling opinion that no law held the woman responsible for ridding herself of an unwanted child. Therefore, she argued, the police can take no action "even if you take your fetus into the police station and tell them you just did your own abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gynecology: Disease of Unwanted Pregnancy | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

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