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...Packers moving against the Eastern Champion New York Giants, Packer Coach Vince Lombardi relied on a savagely blocking line, the accurate passing of Quarterback Bart Starr, and the multiple talents of Paul Hornung - the N.F.L.'s Player of the Year. Hornung drove past Giant defenders for 89 yds. (including a 6-yd. touchdown burst), booted three field goals and four extra points as the Packers cut down the hapless Giants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard: Jan. 12, 1962 | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

...hospital walls and roof; patients crawled screaming into the corridors; one African woman in the process of giving birth rose in terror and fled before her delivery, was not seen again. A U.N. spokesman admitted the firing, said the rounds were aimed at a Katangese army camp 800 yds. beyond the hospital. But some of the shells even hit a Roman Catholic cathedral in an African residential section, and others exploded near the Lido Hotel, a U.N. rest camp that was eventually abandoned to the Katangese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: Battle for Katanga | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...Germans narrowed the remaining border crossings to an alley-wide 7-ft. passage, a young East German railroad engineer highballed a suburban eight-car train with 24 friends and family to West Berlin. Harry Deterling, 28, got the idea when he heard of Communist plans to tear up 500 yds. of the rail line between Albrechtshof and the West Berlin border. He drained the air from the emergency brakes so that no Communist aboard could stop the unscheduled express by yanking the emergency cord, then roared the locomotive at 50 m.p.h. past the Albrechtshof station into the British sector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: Freedom Train | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...first play of the final period, Speranza flipped a 10-yd. touchdown pass. Three plays later, Frauenheim intercepted a pass on Columbia's 48-yd. line to set up a drive capped by Speranza's 1-yd. dive into the end zone. Still rolling, Rutgers drove 60 yds. for the tiebreaker. Two plays later, Frauenheim plucked off another Columbia pass and raced 30 yds. for the Scarlet Knights' fourth touchdown of the period. Final score: Rutgers 32, Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Doing for Dear Old Rutgers | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...certificate to quell complaints from rival coaches. Soon the coaches had better reason to gripe. After dropping its first three games during Ferguson's freshman year, Troy never lost another while he was around. College recruiters, awed by Ferguson's ability to gain as much as 470 yds. in a single game, swamped him with offers. None were as persuasive as Woody Hayes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bulldozing Buckeye | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

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