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...perfectionist," says Barry, "I can't stand mediocrity." If being a one-man offense is perfection, Barry is indeed close to the mark. Tall enough (6 ft. 7½ in.) and heavy enough (220 Ibs.) to hold his own against most rival forwards, Barry can torment opponents with a deadly outside jump shot or exceptionally quick moves to the basket. Already this season, he has scored more than 40 points in ten games. "I don't believe any one man can prevent me from scoring," he says. Because he has been so hot, he often draws double coverage...
...playoffs in 1972, but since then they have slumped badly, finishing this season with three straight defeats and a sagging 6-8 record. Disillusioned Green Bay fans who wanted nothing less than a consistent winner like their late coach, Vince Lombardi, subjected Devine and his family to unremitting torment (TIME, Oct. 7). "I wouldn't be human," he says, "if I weren't a little bitter. In all honesty, I can't say I could have stayed on in those conditions...
That would be yet another torment for the inmates, some of whom have been in their strange purgatory for as long as 18 months. They are confined 22 hours a day in 6-ft. by 9-ft. cells, emerging only to eat and spend 60 minutes in the recreation pen. They are allowed one hour-long visit each week by a relative; visits by friends must be approved by prison authorities...
...transition from free speech to enforced silence is no doubt painful. What torment it is for a living society, used to thinking, to lose, as from some day determined by decree, the right to express itself in print and in public, year in and year out to bite back its words in friendly conversation and even under the family roof...
...Pittsburgh, the Central Division favorites, have been just as stubborn on defense, but the Steelers' offense has sagged, and they now find themselves in a tight battle with the Cincinnati Bengals. Though all but out of the running, the nettlesome Houston Oilers and Cleveland Browns both promise to torment the leaders in future weeks...