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Once he reads his key and analyzes the play, the defensive lineman reacts -and reacts fast, trying to beat his opponent to the block, catch him off-balance, squirt past him before he can plant himself. To confuse blockers, defenders will "stunt," or loop around each other; they may charge high to hurdle a block, or duck low to "submarine" under. They clutch at shoulder pads and jerseys, trying to spin blockers aside and clear a path to the ballcarrier. They have, in fact, become so adept at slipping blocks that not even the punter, standing 15 yds. back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Four at the Heart | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...double that of 1967 and six times the amount it spent in 1965. Almost simultaneously, the Manhattan-based Population Council reported that family-planning efforts in Taiwan and South Korea had met with marked success, mainly through increased use of intrauterine devices like the Lippes loop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Birth Control: For Zero Growth | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

...single yellow feather drifts down to settle on the moss. I laugh, delighted by the purity of it." In a familiar childhood rite, he discovers the intricate magic of a yo-yo that he has bought from two Oriental itinerant salesmen, and learns the various movements-"walking the dog," "loop the loops" and a dazzling number called "the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Yo-Yos & Other Magic | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

Brown is the only Ivy school where soccer rides in the front seat along with football. The smallest school in the loop, Brown has had trouble attracting enough football players to have any success against Harvard, Yale, and Princeton--bigger schools with more active and farther-reaching alumni groups. But a good soccer team needs only a dozen men, and Brown coach Stevenson has been practically alone in the League in his aggressive recruitment...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Possible Soccer Upset In Game With Bruins | 11/18/1967 | See Source »

Like moneylenders in the temple or hippies at the Pentagon, a baton twirler in the band is a total mind-loop. But whatever your reality, Donald W. Tuckwiller Jr. '70 is doing the Mr. America thing at Harvard...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: Sophomore Harpoons Sky To Capture Bag of Laughs | 11/15/1967 | See Source »

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