1960:FIC "done it before, and plenty, for her nose was red and sore. She made cow-eyes at me. "" Do n't say it, "" I told her. "" I'm not your darlin' Billy . '' The dice were to my right -- I'd get them after a couple more losers rolled. My unwanted hustler stood on that side of me, too. Theynever have any money of their own. I was n't about to give her any of mine. I wanted to lose some dough in a hurry. I started playing field numbers, and TK'd the dice"
1960:MAG "Pacific and may therefore "" attract the lightning "" of a Communist H-bomb attack. There are U.S. reservations about the treaty as well; many Pentagon staff officers complain that it gives Japan what amounts to a veto over the movement of U.S. troops on the perimeter of the Asian mainland. # The Losers. The treaty is to run for ten years, and its ten articles pledgethat 1) both nations will take "" action to counter the common danger "" if the forces of either are attacked in Japan, though not elsewhere, 2) "" prior consultation "" will be held between the"
1960:MAG ", what we would think of as corny because his plots were frightful. There were scenes in his plays such as the one where the hero is about to be executed and the heroine runs onto the stage with the American flag and throws it over him? and the United PHILIP LEVINE THE LOSERSMIDNIGHT brings the midnight news. I, who've lost at solitaire More patiencethan I care to lose, Quiet when the waves declare The public and improbable Morality of sweet despair. Nations rise, princes fall; The names are those we've heard before. Someone else, unmentioned,"
1961:FIC ". Not until he saw the remains of the Earth fleet turn tail and run did he realize that the battle had been won. The Kerothi fleet consolidated itself. There was no point in pursuing the fleeting Earth ships; that would only break up the solidity of the Kerothi deployment. The losers could afford to scatter; the winners could not. Early in the war,the Kerothi had used that trick against Earth; the Kerothi had broken and fled, and the Earth fleet had split up to chase them down. The scattered Earth ships had suddenly found that they had been led"
1961:FIC "your back too. Like a monkey. You drop that load too when you got an excuse. All you got ta do is learn to feel sorry for yourself. One of the best indoor sports: feeling sorry for yourself... a sport enjoyed by all, especially the born losers. EDDIE (gets up to go). Thanks for the drink. BERTWait a minute. Maybe I can help you. EDDIETo do what? BERTGet the three thousand. Play Minnesota Fats again. EDDIEWhy? BERTTen reasons. Maybe fifteen. And also there"
1961:FIC "know what, kid? I think maybe you're a hustler. YOUNG MANTry me. EDDIEShoot. YOUNG MANOK. The young man makes his break shot, slamming the nine into the pocket. He looks up at Eddie, grinning snidely. The other two men, the losers, stand around, mutely following the play. YOUNG MANYou sure you don't want to quit, friend? EDDIE (suddenly irked). Let's cut out the small stuff, huh? Hundred dollar freeze-out. Ten games, ten bucks a game, winner take all."
1961:NEWS "east and west walls just south of the entrance. The casino office, with a safe for the $150,000 "" bank, "" is on the west side of the building off one of the small dice tables. To its patrons, the mob serves the finest of food and drink. For losers who are regular customers, there is' no check. Winners are expected topay. Authorities in Will county never have molested the dice game. The only law enforce. ment heat the gangsters have experienced came from Illinois State Police Supt. William Morris. State troopers, led by Morris,"
1962:FIC "Glad you're not. (He sits down and rests his head on the back of the chair. She turns toward the table, he catches her hand) Lael You realize that whatever happens, we're ahead. LAEL TUCKER WERTENBAKER Yes. CHARLES CHRISTIAN WERTENBAKER The world's full of losers, and we've won. The kids, our time here, the chanceto do the work we wanted to do, not had to -- what a score! LAEL TUCKER WERTENBAKER We swamped'em. CHARLES CHRISTIAN WERTENBAKER A great little team. LAEL TUCKER WERTENBAKER Hip, hip -- CHARLES CHRISTIAN"
1962:FIC "6 -- NEW ANGLE - RACE 11 View page image The camel overtakes the sweat-lathered horses and wins going away. HECK LONGTREE, the camel rider, dismounts, as do the riders of the horses. Heck is a handsome young man of twenty-three, rugged, brash, cocky. Two of the losers pay up and move away. The third, HANK, stands looking at thecamel. MED. SHOT - JUDD 11X1 He dismounts and starts toward Carnival area, only to be stopped by the Policeman. POLICEMANWatch out, Old Man! He pulls Judd back, as a vintage automobile"
1962:MAG ", as the bird man, and a superb cast make this one of the most powerful prison movies in years. # Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are off-the-beaten-trail westerns about uncommonly untamed men who refuse to traffic with, or truckle to, a mechanized civilization. The gallant losers include Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott (Country) and Kirk Douglas (Brave). # The Concrete Jungle. A saxophoney blues mocks and mourns the rise and fall of the criminal hero in this jagged, jazzy British crime thriller. # Boccaccio' 70 is an erotic Italian film, though"
1962:MAG "upset one way or the other, the House will continue to support the President on foreign and military policy; it will only grudgingly approve his new ventures in domestic fields, If the Republican governors win As to the third area of political conflict, the governorships, the Democrats look like thelosers. Of 35 governorships to be filled on November 6, 21 are now heldby Democrats. But the importance this fall lies in the fact that the Democrats are in trouble in three big states: Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan. They are also strongly challenged in California, and in"
1963:MAG "than killing. Senegal is more typical of African politics. In December 1962, armed men faced each other in the streets of Dakar, in a showdown between President Leopold Senghor and Prime Minister Mamadou Dia. The crisis was resolved, however, without the loss of a single life; thelosers, Dia and his supporters, were jailed, not executed. In Lome,capital of Togo, President Sylvanus Olympio was assassinated in January 1963 by unemployed ex-soldiers. That morning I? and everyone else? walked the streets of Lome in safety, for the soldiers, once their tragic deed"
1963:MAG "suddenly to conjure up the appearance of one? There will be deci? sions for President Johnson to make. Whether he makes them or someone else does, they will be his responsibil? ity. But he has already announced one decision: since in this age '' there can be no losers in peace and no vic? tors in war, '' he will not beafraid to negotiate. Around the President Those faithful lieutenants? and not all of them Irish? who helped Mr. Kennedy become President and were brought by him to the White House will make way for the Texans."
1963:NEWS "agriculture. Both the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain expressed their opinions that to carry reprisals against France for wirecking the unity of Europe should at present be avoided. But how long can France's challenge go unanswered without Some regroupings, thereby bypassing France? The losers in such case would be not only the French nation, but the world too. France is highly susceptible to collective hysteria because of long-standing repressed frustrations and could' be driven from internal sources into some anarchistic, self-destroying acts once the present government by one man ceases. And the decision will"
1964:FIC "of depression had come back upon him. He was fed by the depressive atmosphere of the joint. Lonely men drinking but recently distilled moonshine in a dive where the air was rancid. A little fuzzily he recognized a samenessabout them all -- they looked like a collection of also-rans to him, losers, standing around shooting their mouths off and bragging so's to cover up,but he could see through them. Bunch of drunks. He did n't know why he let himself associate with such low life. Zeke downed his second jigger of moonshine, but not without a little gagging,"
1964:MAG "'s agent. Like theatrical agents, these men book their clients on mounts day to day. Unlike theatrical agents they can claim -- and rightly, too -- some of the credit for a jockey's success. A good rider with a bad agent could easily find himself on a string of losers; any popularity he might have had with trainers would be seriously affected, fortrainers are wary of losing jockeys. A bad jockey hiring a good agent, on the other hand, might show immediate improvement. In any event, for every leading agent there is a leading rider, and"
1964:MAG "San Francisco an 8-6 victory. # > Frank ("" Pop "") Ivy: his $23,000-a-year job as coach of the American Football League's Houston Oilers, to onetime Passing Whiz Sammy Baugh-whom Ivy had hired as an assistant coach two weeks before. '' This town just doesn't go for losers, '' explained Owner Bud Adams, whose Oilers won 17 games, lost 11in Ivy's two seasons. 249597 Pamela Mason, the all-but-divorced wife of Actor James Mason, is an"
1964:MAG "): Custer was getting bald. 249902 JEFFERSON DAVIS by Hudson Strode. 556 pages. Harcourt, Brace &; World. $7.50. # With perverse sentimentality, posterity often remembers history's losers more fondly than the luckier or more competent heroes who beat them. But nothinglike this Joan of Arc or Mary Queen of Scots effect has occurred in the case of Jefferson Davis. The public memory retains his name, but his deeds and character are dimmer than Hannibal's. Perhaps it"
1964:MAG "memory retains his name, but his deeds and character are dimmer than Hannibal's. Perhaps it is because Davis refused to let himself be forgiven, and went on proclaiming the Tightness of the South's cause until his death in 1889. Or it may be that the popular taste for gallant losers is satisfied in this historical instance by the courtly warrior, Robert E. Lee.At any rate, the dimness of Davis' repute, even among Southerners, is attested by the fact that Hudson Strode's three-volume biography is not only the best modern work on Davis; it is virtually the"
1964:MAG ". TIME correspondents will concentrate on adding depth and breadth to the general reporting-why the results took the various turns they did, how they were taken by politicians and people, what they mean, the reasons in retrospect for the surprises that are sure to occur, the human reactions of winners and losers. 249907 The 1964 presidential campaign has been one of the most disappointing ever. It was going to be a confrontation between opposing philosophies; it turned out to be a wrestling match be"
1964:MAG "coming to an end. It may be followed by something worse,, but, better or worse, it can not go on in the present form much longer. One signal is what Winston Churchill called "" the neuroses of defeat, '' by which he meant internecine' warfare among the losers. For a year or more South Vietnam has not had a cohesive government,one that could pretend to hold the allegiance of a substantial majority of the people. The country has staggered through a succession of coups, reverse coups, demonstrations and counter-demonstrations, plots and counterplots. The only effective"
1964:MAG "the role of nonpartisan observer to assist others in compiling their own measurements of judicial virtues. We can not fairly evaluate the wisdom or morality of - the Court's patterns of action until we, like the Court, encounter actual cases or controversies. Neither law nor justice can exist without winners, losers and anxious magistrates, for the concepts can be defined only in the concrete instanceand not as abstractions. Beyond the here and now, our principles are inadequate assumptions that only a villain's ox will be gored. Rather than accept Professor Hyneman's balanced account of our Judicial branch, I"
1964:MAG "shift further to the left. To a Wall Street man, the Castro revolution was an equally epochal event, a sort of American Suez, shattering preconceptions and financial reputations. In Castro's total take of about a billion dollars' worth of U.S. property, these were just some of thelosers: the American and Foreign Power Co., $136 million in utilities; the Cuban-AmericanSugar Co., more than $100 million in land, mills and port facilities; the American Sugar Refining Co., more than $75 million in land and mills; Standard Oil of New Jersey, installations worth $75 million"
1964:MAG "Goldwater was no Willkie, losing women's votes by making cracks about Frances Perkins to businessmen; he knew exactly to whom he spoke. Consider the atmosphere of the Republican National Convention. There have been plenty of stacked conventions in American history, but none before that so delighted in humiliating the losers. Again we are wrong if we think the booing of Rockefeller, the opencontempt for the Negro delegates, were the excesses of bumptious amateurs, finding themselves winners by default in a hopeless year. No, these actions were signals to the true believers watching on television that finally the politics"
1965:FIC "these come crawling to Him? To speak of Justice: He wraps them in mink, in the fat of health, success, virtue. They do well. They live well. They do not need Him , not with the easy hunger of these whom He has selected to be His losers. Then are they damned for their good fortune? So it says. Elsethere would be no Justice. But consider the limits again of thep181human imagination. How can it picture or create that which is not? The human imagination creates only from what is. God alone can create out"
1965:FIC "as I have any right to expect. But I wo n't ask Martha to give up the house, and I know damn well I ca n't raise $60,000. "" "" Take a month. Your luck may change. Won't your multimillionairefriends take your I.O.U.? '' '' No. The losers pay by cheque at the end of the evening. I can't write acheque for $10,000 at this moment, and we start those games by buying $10,000 worth of chips. "" | "" Take me to one of those games. I might win. "" "" I ca n't."
1965:FIC "him take them out of the safe. Shooter, Lady Fingers and me pick them up and come straight here with them. SHOOTERHoban's selling them to us at five dollars a pack, with the usual guarantee. If it's proved any deck is spooked, he pays off the losers. LANCEYSt. Louis Bridge Club, eh? Steward still that old yardbird Okra? HOBAN (disturbed) That's him. LANCEY (not noticing; to Kid) Old stud man, Okra. KIDI do n't know him. LANCEYQuite a character. Quite"
1965:MAG "of these actions has been completed in less than two seconds. The ki-ai, or short, stabbing yell that 1 965 JUDO: MAYHEM WITH A GENTLE TOUCH 139 | companies attack, almost invariably "" freezes "" an adversary for the split second that is needed to floor him. The '' losers '' are back on their feet quickly, unhurt. And after each throw thepartners exchange deep bows from the waist before seizing rich other again. For more than half an hour the throwing continues, punctuated only by the formal bowing and the instructor's commands and demonstrations. Judo's fundamental"
1965:MAG "is n't, that creates doubts in their minds and trouble for them at school. And yet we know it is n't true. "" Such dilemmas are not new in totalitarian societies, but they are particularly painful in East Germany. The people of that unfortunate country know they are the real losers of World War II. '' But we are sick of being pitied, ''a Dresden dentist told me. "" We're sick of being called' the Zone' and having the West Germans weep crocodile tears over us. "" Sometimes the West Germans even forget the tears and brazenly flaunt"
1965:MAG "touchdown. "" "" The end of Act One, "" Stern said, "" I do n't know where is the commitment. "" "" The first three numbers in Act Two, "" Brooks said, "" are the worst, seventy-five miles an hour into a stone wall. Death. Three losers back to back. '' '' That song, '' Stern said, '' thatawful song... what's the name of it? "" "" Home Again, "" Ross said. "" Yeah, right, Home Again, "" Stern said. "" Well, it's terrible. What"
1965:NEWS "aimed at Jonathan B. Bingham in their primary fight last June, when Mr. Bingham defeated the Congressman for the Democratic nomination in the 25d District The recent victory of Mayor Wagner's men in the Legislature was another sharp . blow to the power and patronage of Mr. Buckley, who had backed the losers. Mr. Buckley, the tough 74-year-old Bronx leader, continuing his attack on theWagner forces, said: "" I never got any jobs out of Albany. And I was n't asking for any. All I merely was saying was that if there Is a scarcity of men, we have"
1965:NF "spend less on the products of those who have lost while those who have gained spend more on the products of those who have gained. The opposite pattern of demand will mitigate the initial change in | the distribution of incomes, since the gainers would increase the demand for the products of the losers and vice versa. But if we assume that citizens are much more similar asconsumers than as producers, we can concentrate our attention on the way in which the price changes which we have already examined in Chapter III are likely directly to affect the distribution of money incomes between the various groups"
1966:FIC small target. They are still; bit by bit movement can be detected. First: as if flower petals are stirred by wind or are warming toward the sun.) p. 3 A VOICE ON TAPE (Recites the following) Things could be different. Nobody wins. We are teams of losers. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Or isn't life thedream of those who are dying? It's only by virtue of our eyes that there are stars. I've been a long time a-comin' and I'll be a long time gone. Let us persevere
1966:MAG "razed to make way for a supermarket. The man responsible for the Steelers' uncharacteristic restraint is the new coach, Bill Austin, who formerly cracked an assistant's whip for the league's toughest boss, Vince Lombardi, at Green Bay. But the Steelers will be no more than disciplined losersthis season. What Austin got was just about the most terrible team in modernNFL football. Until he can find more able hands, Pittsburgh will be a tight ship with no visible helmsman and alarming noises in the engine room. // Who's to steer the Steelers? The quarterbacks --"
1966:MAG "fostered rivalry between the offensive and defensive platoons, Austin is promoting a feeling of unity and team spirit. The players definitely prefer it Austin's way. The rest of the football world always chuckled over the anecdotes trickling out of Dante's, the team hangout, as the town's swinginglosers took refreshment, but the stories never seemed very funny to the suffering Pittsburgh fans. As they knew, pro football came to consider the town as the end of the line. Players traded to the Steelers were widely and publicly pitied -- by other players and by themselves. Management persisted in"
1966:MAG "pressagent, "" become the black Rock Hudson. "" # There are reports, too, that Brown will take over as manager of boxing's Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay. When Clay fought Britain's Henry Cooper last May, Jim was constantly at his side-even during early-morning roadwork sessions. # The losers will be the Cleveland Browns, whom Brown led to two Eastern Conference championships ina row. The way Jim figured it, though, the Browns might be even better off without him. "" Now, "" he explained modestly, "" the other teams' defenses wo n't be able to"
1966:MAG "are saying good-bye, you casually add, "" Oh, by the way, what about my weight? "" So now settle back and lend an ear as we take it step by step. # STEP ONE : Let's get a few things straight You Can Lose. Most would-be weight losers are licked before they start? consciously or not, they have already accepted defeat. They are willing to go through the motions of a weight-reduction program, but mostly to prove the futility of the whole thing ("" At least I tried ""). Psychologically or emotionally. maybe some people"
1966:MAG "P.M. "" just to keep him company. "" But the time when calorie consump- | tion per minute per overweight ind. - dividual appears to reach its peak is between 7 and 11 P.M.? prime evening television (and snack) time. Why Do You Want to Lose Weight' Would-be weight losers have usually been overweight for months or years. Why the big push to losejust now' The answers are always interesting and often provide an index of how successful the dieter is likely to be. A tubby woman in her forties comes steaming into the office. It seems s::"
1966:MAG "than another. This is not true. It's calories that count? re-member? My main reliance is on re-educating the patient through the use of the calorie diary. More about this shortly. Drugs. Most physicians will give pills to curb the appetite or calm the nerves of would-be weight losers. But that's all. In truth, there's nothing else to give. The most potent agents must be supplied by the patient? motivation, willpower and determination. Follow-up. Better than anyone else, the physician can play the dual role of benevolent enforcer and objective observer. He"
1966:MAG "I've already mentioned this business of kidding yourself? or rationalization, to put it on a loftier plane. Underlying it is the very human desire to find a face-saving way to get out of doing what we know we should do. It's probably overstating the case to say that weight losers harbor a subconscious desire to fail. Most simply want to be exempted from havingto try. There are infinite variations on the theme, but here are a few of the ones I hear over and over.? "" I gave up smoking and I just could n't control my appetite."
1966:MAG "little while. "" Adlai was remarkably composed and serene, the only blithe member of a doleful group. He had no taste, he said, for political wakes? "" especially', when I'm the corpse. '' He consoled us as though we, not he, were the losers, at one point disappearing into the kitchen for a jeroboam of victory champagne someonehad sent him. Always the Scotchman, he insisted on not wasting it. Always the con- 4 siderate host, he insisted on pouring it himself. Finally he announced that since he had lost the election,"
1966:NEWS "I get older. But I hope to live longer out of baseball, "" he said. Might O'Malley persuade him to change his mind? Sandy laughed. "" No, my mind was made up, "" he said. What will the Dodgers, the National League pennantwinners and World Series losers to the Baltimore Orioles, do. without him next year? '' Other ballplayershave retired and the team has managed to get by, "" he replied. No Future as Hitter "" Maybe the Dodgers will need a fourth starting pitcher, but if they can come up with another kid like"
1967:FIC "American star, the eh, eh, the bullfight man? Yes, of course you know who I mean, but Harry would not talk to him, said, No American writer can be called great unless he deals with American themes, problems and aspirations. That man could write about losers so well and not even really know any; he went here and there tofind them and all the time they were right beneath his feet. Millions of them.' We needed that then, with the war not long over and Dienbienphu still before us. We needed the confidence of"
1967:FIC "and then out of guilt and sympathy we imitate them. "" "" Oh, but wait a minute! "" "" No, "" I said. "" You said you were braced. We imitate it out of pity, and we create it out of pity. Any civilizationthat achieves anything has losers -- one of the reasons it achieves is that it has clear ways of tellingits losers from its heroes. We have given up heroes -- they go in for achievement. So we have more and more surviving losers, whom we imitate because we ca n't be ruthless enough to put them"
1967:FIC "a minute! "" "" No, "" I said. "" You said you were braced. We imitate it out of pity, and we create it out of pity. Any civilizationthat achieves anything has losers -- one of the reasons it achieves is that it has clear ways of telling its losers from its heroes. We have given up heroes -- they go in for achievement. So we have more and more surviving losers, whom we imitate because we ca n't be ruthless enough to put them down. Are you still listening? "" "" Not very quietly. "" "" I know"
1967:FIC ", and we create it out of pity. Any civilizationthat achieves anything has losers -- one of the reasons it achieves is that it has clear ways of telling its losers from its heroes. We have given up heroes -- they go in for achievement. So we have more and more surviving losers, whom we imitate because we can't be ruthless enough to put them down. Are you still listening? "" "" Not very quietly. "" "" I know. You're pitiful. So am I. But I try to be pitiful and still keep my head clear. The law,"
1967:MAG "all the temptations of a monastery. Mormon regulations forbid drinking and smoking, a list to which BYU adds Bermuda shorts and sandals. Even sipping such stimulants as coffee and Coke is taboo on campus. So coaches and competitors relaxed, knowing that in this setting there could be no excuses for losers. The best team would win. // USC had the best team, notbecause it had the best pole vaulter and hurdler and 440-yard relay squad, but because it had the best team. The near-stars did their part, picking up points for lower placings under the 10-8-6-4-2-1 system of awards"
1967:MAG "children, sit on straw mats and enjoy the spectacle. After the matches, owners bathe their dogs, dress them in the championship belt and robe proper to their status and parade them in front of the crowd . Silver loving cups, championship trophies and flags are presented to both winners and losers. Many bows and congratulations are exchanged and much good-humored chaffing goes on between theowners. Challenges are called as the crowd applauds the official announcement of a dog's victory or promotion to a higher championship class. // At the last prefectural (countywide) tournament in Ito, 70 miles south"
1967:MAG ", he finally threw off the mantle of Rumania's "" collective leadership "" and took over the presidency himself. He also did away with "" parallel "" party and government jobs at the local level, reshuffled the Rumanian hierarchy and put some of the Old Guard out to pasture. Among thelosers was Ceausescu's only challenger for power in the past, ex-Police Chief Alexandru Draghici, who was dropped as a Party Secretary and became one of several deputy premiers. # Ceausescu no doubt wanted the presidency partly because it would give him more stature when traveling abroad. It would also make it"
1967:MAG "two singles matches to give the Davis Cup to Australia for the 21st time and the 14th in the last 17 years. # The Indians only managed to avoid a shutout by upsetting Roche and Newcombe in the doubles , 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-4. # The real consolation for the losers came in reports that Emerson, at 30, was hanging up his racket andthat Stolle, 28, was planning to turn pro-following in the footsteps of Dennis Ralston, the U.S.'s top-ranked player, who signed a $100,000 contract last week. # The loss of Emerson and Stolle could cripple"
1967:MAG "so often on parade merely dummies? He mentioned other possibilities: mechanical failure, fear of a mythical superweapon at Rehovoth, or pressure from Moscow to avoid what would have been purely futile destruction of cities. This led him to another matter: The Russians were not famous for their loyalty to losers, and the Arabs had lust. Was there any point in approaching the Russiansnow -- or, at least, the Rumanians, who had declared themselves in such moderate terms? Several professors of Russian descent expressed themselves emotionally on the prospect of a rapprochement with their native land, but the"
1967:NF "at a low point on any scale of values. Individuals are the enemy of government. Government is inescapably concerned with unity. Individuals are the necessary victims. "" To maintain this unity, he writes, governments are required to use force; thus individuals, he reasons, are again thelosers. When conformity is at a premium, then individuality goes for a discount.He describes it as follows: A peaceful and law-abiding citizen, for example, may have perfectly sound and moral reasons why he does not wish to share his money with the government or the politicians of Yugoslavia."
1968:FIC "I go to Washington. I yell my head off. But I really mean to do it, being reasonable or unreasonable, which is more than you've had on your mind these last twenty-four years? "" '' Yes, okay. So then you decided to do something with the Muslims losers -- why not the Panthers? '' Jarod waited to see if he had somethingelse on his mind. "" Here we are, "" he said, "" and we're still talking about me. "" "" Yes. And the Muslims. "" "" Exercise. Just trying out for size"
1968:FIC "dance. Beautiful. Beany is stunned by Tony's unlikely manner. He looks at Tony like he's nuts. BEANYHey, who you rootin for!?? TONYI'm rooting f.... for.... everyone. There are no winners, there are no losers. Beany's eyes show amazed incredulity. Fred and Leech look at Beany withan air of protection for Tony, "" their "" saint. 257. THE TWO BOXERS Tiger has Speed on the ropes, a flurry of punches, but miraculously now, Speed comes out of it and begins"
1968:MAG "support voiced by their 29 colleagues for the sisters "" does not represent the entire religious community at Loyola, "" and suggested that judgment not be made "" until competent authorities in the church have rendered their decision. '' # Whether the sisters quit the schools - or are pushed out of them-the real losers would be their students. The Immaculate Heart nuns have a reputation as exceptional teachers. Moreover, good teachers are hard to come by in the city, especially since parochial-school salaries are $1,500 to $2,000 a year less than those in public schools."
1968:MAG "went to court. Six other men, who had backed the invention, joined the suit. Not until 1966 did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that Bert's patent had indeed been infringed. Last February the lawyers involved agreed that the Government should pay $2,500,000 in damages. # Painful Riders.Losers of damage suits are notoriously slow payers, and all too often the winner findshimself back in court fighting to collect what the law has said is rightfully his. But Adams' debtor, after all, was the U.S. Government. His money seemed practically in his pocket. # Far from"
1968:MAG "and mosquitoes, into what the Portuguese like to think will become the Ruhr of Africa. Among the area's natural resources are known reserves of nickel, copper and asbestos, plus a twelve-mile-long seam of coal and iron deposits that could produce an annual 1,000,000 tons of ore. # # Losers in the bidding: a group led by the U.S.'s Morrison-Knudsen Co. and anotherformed around British companies, including English Electric Co.275116 Even at the painful cost of $200 million a year"
1968:MAG "U.S. military hospital at Phu Bai. # At week's end, walking with a crutch, Greenway was back at work, but from his home in Hong Kong. # IT'S not necessarily who won or lost a particular contest, but how and why they came to be winners or losers and what it all means to the players and to the game. That,in sum, is our philosophy of how we should cover sports. And so our Sport team, headed by Senior Editor George G. Daniels, pushes aside the routine and instead seeks out insights that will fit stories"
1969:FIC "my eyes and ears bleeding with all the revolt against boredom I'd worked for. Screams of vengeance and mercy and something to do, laughing and crying red blurs like headless roaches, chairs flying, table legs breaking heads of gods, politicians, pissers, laughers, screamers, shitters,losers. Joe comes up to protect me. Before he can ask what happened,a chair hits his head and I laugh. I laugh again while moving against a wall as I see the bishop putting his fingers into the hitter's eyes so deep he ca n't get them out. I"
1969:FIC "Boy -- you sure did grow! "" he said. They were his first words. "" You must of grown six inches! "" "" Five, according to the camp nurse, "" I said. He hitched up his belt and looked away from me. '' Well, pick two losers and let's play. '' I was probably a foot taller than Izzie nowand I could tell it bothered him. He did n't ask me anything about camp. He just concentrated on getting the game going. During that first time we played against each other, I did n't know"
1969:FIC "finally landed her a husband. But before that she never got dates. And so one weekend she was going to Grossinger's with several girls she knew, all pigs like herself -- you know the type. No, you wouldn't. Virgin Jewish girls past twenty-five. Hysterical! Real losers. The kind that's stopped hop- ing. My sister was one of them. So this weekend I remember my sister was packing slacks, a tennis racket, a bathing suit, and my mom said, What, no pretty dresses?' My sister said, Look, Mom,"
1969:FIC "bar features a mating game program as Jackie cruises down to join a tall farm boy with plucked eyebrows. The TV HOST points to three young men, visible only from the shoulders up, from whom a pretty DATE GIRL in blindfold must choose an escort. TV HOST... and for the losers, who don't get the girl, we'll give as consolation prices -- a six month supply of underarm deodorant... In a booth now -- the TV screen in the background, continuing the game -- Joe is refilling Ratso's beer glass as he speaks, loud over the laughter of"
1969:FIC "aware that there were summits beyond what he had already achieved, he had not believed himself capable of attaining one of those loftier positions. That is, he had not believed it until the fabulous Luther Yerkes had reached out and knighted him. And even Elmo Duncan knew that Yerkes never picked losers. Recollecting the golden weekend -- last winter, it had been, in LutherYerkes' desert hideaway in Palm Springs -- Duncan was once again warmed and his weariness was shed. When he had arrived on a Friday evening for that weekend, Duncan had tried to speculate on the purpose behind"
1969:NF "like your background and my background and it is n't spangled with titles from the great books of the Western World. But it's there. We know for sure that it is wellstocked with plenty of TV material just waiting to be tapped with probing questions about phoniness and realness, winners andlosers, style and schmaltz? all the new ways of talking about the old ideasof the true, the good, and the beautiful. If the school is in business to communicate with these students, it is up to the school to get plugged in to their background. Whatever the eventual"
1969:NF "NEA without influence during the critical period after passage when the administrative regulations were being drawn up. The testimony before the House and Senate was replete with questions about how a particular title and section would be implemented. If for no other reason, the NEA could not afford to be with the losers the year federal aid finally got enacted. Since the NEA's principal reason forbeing was the passage of federal aid to education legislation, the rival teacher organizations' (the AFLCIO-affiliated American Federation of Teachers) charges that the NEA had not been successful up to 1965 touched a sensitive chord."