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...architecture every year enroll no less than one-fifth of all Yale undergraduates?plus some 100 non-enrolled auditors who may catch him for four years and never hear precisely the same lecture twice. Waiting for the lights to dim for his slides, Scully paces head down like a halfback about to take the field. Then he swings his 10-ft. pointer, whomps the screen as if to destroy a bad building, jabs it like a fencer to stress a point ?and buildings take on life. "What does a building want to be?" he will ask. "How does that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: To Profess with a Passion | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...fought their way into a Viet Cong camp near Bong Son one night, only to find the place deserted. Then, at midnight, with the ammo running low, Captain Pete Dawkins, 27, had the V.C. red-dogging in on both flanks. After a quick firefight, Army's 1958 AllAmerica halfback huddled with his assistant, Lieut. Dick McDaniel, a former Nebraska end, and called for a "quick draw"-an artillery barrage from the nearby 1st Air Cavalry Division. That play scored fine, and afterward, as Dawkins and his unit rested in Saigon, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky awarded him and McDaniel South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 4, 1966 | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...entourage was organized by Bobby Leo '67, a Harvard halfback from Everett. Leo was recruited by A. David Mazzone '50, a personal friend, who is O'Donnell's campaign manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Players to Guide Politicians To Testimonial Dinner for O'Donnell | 1/18/1966 | See Source »

...second half, the Packers slogged up and down the muddy field, scoring a touchdown and a field goal, controlling the ball so effectively that the Browns got to run only 16 plays to Green Bay's 35. The stars of that relentless assault were the cripples: Fullback Taylor, Halfback Hornung. In all, Hornung carried 18 times for 105 yds.; Taylor, workhorse of the Green Bay backfield, picked up 96 yds. on 27 carries to earn the game's Most Valuable Player award. When the final gun sounded, it was Hornung and Taylor who hoisted Coach Lombardi to their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Football: One for the Cripples | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

...Football halfback John Dockery ran a 0:49.7 quarter upstairs in Briggs Cage yesterday, the best time of the season. He'll probably lead off in the mile relay, and may be followed by Captain Tony Lynch, Bob Cook, and Sam Robinson, another halfback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Runners Go in K of C's Tomorrow | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

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