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An assistant at Cincinnati before moving up to the top job. Jucker, 45, is a master of such complicated tactics as the Backdoor Trap and the Swing-and-Go, plays designed to spring a Cincinnati player, all alone, under the enemy basket. He dotes on "the science of percentage basketball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pressure & Percentages | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

Later, when the Indians did strike from time to time, there is no record anywhere that they galloped around in circles twanging arrows into the ring of wagons, an absolutely pointless maneuver since the Indians would have been exposing themselves to rifle fire from protected riflemen. Instead, they laid siege...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rut: The California Trail | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

He has signed for six new pictures, to be made over the next two years. He opens soon as an Arab chieftain in the much-awaited Lawrence of Arabia. He is also Dino de Laurentiis' Barabbas, giving a taut, disciplined, and sometimes moving performance as the man whose life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: In Total Demand | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

> In Lima, Peru, where low-hanging clouds are a constant fret to pilots, the skies were encouragingly clear when a Boeing 707 flight of Brazil's Varig Airlines approached from Rio de Janeiro. Carrying a crew of 17 and 80 passengers, it swung out over the ocean, circling to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: The Ache & the Argument | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

In New Delhi the government of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was taken completely by surprise. An Indian spokesman first denounced the Chinese offer as a "diabolical maneuver." which was later amended to the comment that India would "wait and see" exactly what the Chinese were proposing. A communique confirmed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Never Again the Same | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

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