Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human body-as two of football's most talented practitioners discovered this month. Notre Dame Quarterback Terry Hanratty tried to take the ball around end on an option play, and ran head-on into two tacklers. One hit him high, while the other pinioned his left leg. Snap went a ligament in Hanratty's left knee, and that was the end of his season. Four days later, the Chicago Bears' breakaway halfback, Gale Sayers, hit similar trouble when he tried to turn the corner on an end run. He planted his right foot to cut downfield...
...time, and initially clothed. Possibly the most exciting scene in this distinctly lethargic drama is the one in which she is undressed by her captor, a soft-spoken psychopath (Robert Drivas) who recounts in a nonstop monologue how the first girl he loved ditched him and then went mad, and how he abandoned another woman who then committed suicide. McNally's point seems to be that humans ought to manage the business of love with antlike efficiency and cool concupiscence...
...Twenty-one million at-home fans climbed into their TV sets. And then-NBC abruptly cut away to Heidi, a two-hour dramatization of the children's classic. It was a clear case of unsportsmanlike conduct, especially since the Raiders, in those last few TV-less seconds, went on to score two spectacular back-to-back touchdowns...
...success in the Italian fashion world is unprecedented, and Scott came a long way to achieve it. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father, an itinerant photographer and traveling salesman, died when he was twelve, leaving the family destitute. Scott worked after school dressing store windows, went to Manhattan in 1940 to study art with Painters Moses and Rafael Soyer. "I wore sandals and a beard," he says. "Oh, I was one of the early hippies." He switched to designing fabrics, took off for Paris in 1947, and has been an expatriate ever since...
...fragile nature of the truce was illustrated when eight union teachers were prevented from entering an Ocean Hill-Brownsville school. Shanker threatened to call the teachers out on a fourth strike if they were not admitted quickly. Swift action by Trustee Johnson averted more trouble, and the schools went back into full session...