Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would contribute to the fund the sums that European countries repay on their Marshall Plan loans; European countries would kick in amounts equal to 20% of their repayments to the U.S. Estimated total available: $100 million a year. In addition, private capital would be encouraged to join in. To manage the fund, the Italians suggested a nine-man international board to be chaired by a representative from...
...punt isn't just a last-ditch defensive play," argues Father Fenton. "It's an offensive weapon. A good quick kick puts a team on its heels, and you're likely to get the ball back right away on a fumble or a blocked punt. Same way with a 'coffin-corner kick' [a kick that goes out of bounds within the 10-yd. line]. They're both fine short-term investments. You'll get that ball back with interest...
Ballet for Balance. Arnold Fenton has long practiced what he preaches; as a four-year-old, he booted drop kicks over his mother's clothesline in Metuchen, N.J. By the time he hit the University of Pennsylvania in 1922, he could drill a drop kick through the uprights from 45 yds. out. But as a Penn sophomore, Fenton suffered a concussion in an early scrimmage. He never played again. "When I got clobbered like that," he explains, "I turned to kicking as compensation...
...salt, will boot low against it, high with it. The best ones can even tack the ball into a wind angling up the field to get a few added yards. One other Fenton law: ignore charging linemen. Says he: "It's better to risk a blocked kick than to take your eye off the ball...
Able Chicago Impresario Lawrence V. Kelly, who undertook the staggering job of installing an opera company deep in the heart of Texas, had managed to snag Maria Callas to kick off his new Dallas Civic Opera Company with a grand inaugural concert. But earlier in the season the diva dived off the deep end and failed to appear with the San Francisco Opera Company, pleading ill-health (TIME, Sept. 30). Rumors said that her voice had cracked. Some people in Dallas thought she could not sing, others that she would not. Texans by the droves failed to buy tickets...