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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Not even a second-half appearance by balding Forty-Niner Quarterback Y. A. Tittle, still gimpy from an earlier Colt game, could save the day against a gang-tackling Colt defense led by massive (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Gino Marchetti. Final score: Colts 34, Forty-Niners 14. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Showdown at San Francisco | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

The nation's TV football fans spent the afternoon frantically flicking from the Colts-Forty-Niners game on CBS to NBC, where undefeated Syracuse, intent on disproving the taunt that it had played only so-so opposition, was busy wrecking a U.C.L.A. team that had upended high ranking Southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Showdown at San Francisco | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

The N.A.M.'s new president was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1897, emigrated to the U.S. in 1910. Completing grammar school in Holyoke, Mass., Bannow went to work as an apprentice patternmaker in 1911 at 6½? an hour ("I was grossly underpaid"). In 1919 he shipped around the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Jarring Note | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

McDonald later proposed that the President's board of inquiry, which was set up under the Taft-Hartley Act, recommend the terms of a settlement; he promised to settle "within the framework of the board's recommendations." The President turned down the suggestion in favor of another try...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: These Mulish Men | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Too Much Too Soon. In Washington, high Government officials admitted that they are appalled by the mulish stubbornness of both sides, but privately they tended to blame management more. They feel that management is trying to do too much in one contract, that it should settle the wage question now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: These Mulish Men | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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