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Anybody who hangs around Vince Lombardi's Packers for long is bound to get bruised. Basic, bone-bending football is Lombardi's game, and he has made the most of it with four N.F.L. championships in the past six years. Nothing risky, no mistakes. Nothing risky, that is, except where the gamble could mean a payoff of $23,500 per man-like last week against the Dallas Cowboys for the N.F.L. championship and a trip to Los Angeles. Unable to run against a fierce Dallas defense, Quarterback Starr suddenly put wings on the ball. Three times...
...late, my boy. The little shards of bone from your father's temple will be scattered around this lavatory floor like the bloody roots and broken crowns of extracted teeth...
...undeniably, the bond that binds the members is their common love of opera. They take advantage of the club's seats to hear a favorite opera several times a season, bone up on the club's collection of librettos, delight in the chance to march around the stage in costumes as extras. Says Snyder: "Scratch the surface of an opera-club member, and underneath you'll usually find a former choirboy like me who never got over the singing virus...
...took their skills as seriously as they did. Their descriptions of the intricacies of the various positions and their special moments of triumph are as authentic as only shoptalk can be. Said a player of the awesome Night Train Lane: "He's got pipes for legs, all bone, with just strings of muscle holding him together." Once, after being tackled, Y. A. Tittle "got off the ground and reeled back to the huddle and finally said, 'Christ, I don't . . , I can't think of any plays.' " Or the reticent Milt Plum, savoring a game...
...control" of the drill with which he had bored burr holes in patients' skulls. Whittaker maintained just as stoutly that Dr. Stevenson had always put the drill in place. After the holes were drilled, a fine wire saw was passed through them to cut out the flap of bone. Toward the end of an operation, the surgeon or his assistant took a needle and suture thread and sewed up the dura mater, the brain's tough encasing membrane. A nurse testified that in some cases Whittaker had placed these stitches, but he denied...