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Yet they have outscored their opposition by an average of 9.9 points a game, and three of their seven defeats were by two points or less. Coach Auerbach calls "teamwork" the key to the Celtics' success, says that they have been playing together so long that they instinctively know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Basketball: Can't Anybody Here Beat These Guys? | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

Banana Peel has a plot as tricky as its title. Named after a race horse, this free French comedy of crime and blandishment gives the beast a mere nod during the opening credits, then plunges into an orgy of intrigues on a pretty fast track. Viewers may occasionally wish they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sure-Footed Fleecing | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

Cracking a Ton. They got their answer. Strapping himself into a surgical corset, Jimmy slid gingerly into the cockpit of his rear-engined Lotus and roared around South Africa's East London race track at 100.10 m.p.h.-the first time anybody had "cracked a ton" (topped 100 m.p.h.) on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: With Girdle & Glue | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

But, early in the third quarter, 79,544 fans in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium saw Lou ("The Toe") Groza boot a 43-yd. field goal, and suddenly the floodgates opened. Swinging wide to the left, Fullback Brown took a pitchout, cut back, and churned 46 yds. to the Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Football: A Day for Optimists | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

Godard muddles an already tricky narrative with personal mannerisms and outright irrelevancies. Brigitte Bardot is a sullen enigma as the wife, and Michel Piccoli as the husband is merely opaque. Hollywood's Jack Palance makes the producer seem to be none other than Jack Palance.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Off-Course Odyssey | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

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