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...fervor. "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing," was Lombardi's creed, and the scourge was his method. He elevated coaching to the level of mysticism, and his principal disciples-the Green Bay Packers-became the most spectacularly successful team in the history of professional football. Under his messianic lash, the Packers were the rulers of their brutal profession for nearly a decade; they won five National Football League championships (1961, '62, '65. '66, '67) and the first two Super Bowl games ('66, '67). They compiled an astounding...
> John B. Davis Jr., 48, school superintendent of Minneapolis, has lately awakened to the fact that "I am not only influencing but being influenced" by his eight children, aged seven to 25. The kids helped turn him against the war ?and then challenged his whole profession. His son John...
Ron's Bad News. Outside the profession, much of Lisagor's recognition and prestige is due to his appearances on television, which he pretends to disparage. "I belong to the dirty-fingernail set," he boasts. "Those who work with pencil and notebook, as opposed to the folk heroes...
Falling morale at NASA's major installations is readily apparent. In Florida's once booming Brevard County, site of Cape Kennedy, houses and stores are boarded up, new offices stand empty, and the most lucrative profession in the area seems to be that of resume writer for the...
For the psychiatrist in uniform, the problem can be even more distressing. Within the spirit of his profession, how can he morally justify his military duty, which is to "adjust" to the brutalities of combat a mind that has rejected those very brutalities? In a crisis of conscience similar in...