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...Packers won seven of twelve games -including, admits Hornung. "a fistful that we had no business winning." In 1960. they won the Western Conference championship with an 8-4 record, dropped a 17-13 squeaker to Philadelphia in the X.F.L. championship playoff. Last year the Packers went all the way-and the title game, praise be, was at Green Bay. Nothing like it has ever been seen, before or since. Wrote New York Herald Tribune Columnist Red Smith, after the Giants were demolished: ''The poisonous polish of the Packers was equaled only by the fortitude of the natives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vinnie, Vidi, Vici | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...word, Gigot is a weeper. If Comedian Gleason has his way-and he apparently had his way with John Patrick's script and Gene Kelly's direction-movie houses will have to supply their ushers with rowboats. Fortunately, though, the sniffles are frequently punctuated with snickers, and now and then with a button-popping belly laugh. Gleason has a gift of mimicry that verges on genius, and there are moments in this movie when the thin man struggling to get out of the fat man seems to be Charlie Chaplin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Leg of Dinosaur | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...only to point to the recent experiences of Astronaut John Glenn, who personally took the controls of Friendship 7 when the automatic equipment performed erratically. Even more important, if radar were to pick up signs of an attack on the U.S., an RS-70 could be sent on its way-and recalled later if the warning turned out to be false. No one can call back a missile: it goes or it stays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: RS-70: BUST OR SUPERPLANE? | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

...Year. Notwithstanding the attempt of the Child Welfare League of America to set up a system of agreed standards of child care throughout the nation, many states go their own way-and often an inadequate way it is. Per capita expenditures for children range from $8 a year in New York to 15? in Idaho. There are thousands of children all over the country who, if obsolescent statutes did not forbid, could be adopted and be given good homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children: Lost & Found | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...discharged as a major in 1944, and the details of his work remain classified. All he will say is that published stories about his cloak-and-dagger operations behind enemy lines are false. He once wandered into German-held territory in France, but only because he had lost his way-and he quickly discovered the mistake and left the premises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: The Personal Touch | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

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