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More Than Money. Hornung's fortunes-and Green Bay's-took a rapid turn for the better with the arrival of Coach Lombardi in 1959. A former football player, law student, physics teacher and college coach, Lombardi is a hard-nosed disciplinarian and an advocate of forthright, bone-rattling football. At Green Bay, Lombardi's first job was to find a man around whom he could build an offense-a hard-running halfback who could throw a pass on the run. "Hornung was the type of halfback I had to have," Lombardi says. "I made...
...Hungary, and was still there in the 1920s, when he did the fundamental research now belatedly recognized. As a telephone engineer, he concentrated on the human ear and in particular the cochlea, the "snail shell" of the inner ear. For research he built models, bored through the temporal bone of a corpse so that he could observe with strobe lighting the effect of sound waves on the cochlea, which is linked to the eardrum by three small, movable bones of the middle ear. What he saw was that the cochlea reacts to the pitch of a struck note by making...
...sharply worded telegram pointed to the large numbers of still-births, cases of leukemia, bone cancer, and mutations that will result from continuing bomb tests, and reminded Khrushchev that the disastrous effects of the bomb will be shared by the Russian people at an "enormous cost...
...other league, a clash between two such talented teams would surely decide the conference championship. Not in the Big Ten, where bone-rattling football is the standard weekly fare. Season after season, the Big Ten play the finest football in the nation. This year, no fewer than four Big Ten teams (Iowa, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State) have been ranked among the nation...
...story of a young Englishwoman who urges her penniless lover to start a flirtation with an ailing American heiress, hoping that the heiress, who is compared in the story to a dove, will soon die and leave him rich and free. In stripping the story to the operatic bone, Moore and Librettist Ethan Aver changed the name of the scheming suitor from Merton Densher to Miles Dunster (because, says Moore, ''the name Densher could not be enunciated today without a ribald response"), and they gave the opera an extra twist by making Densher announce, after the death...