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...vices of Tokyo have been toned down for the Games. Lady Diet members pushed through a law requiring the masseuses in Tokyo's "hotsie bath" emporiums to wear robes instead of bikinis, and the police have enacted a midnight curfew that has already gone into effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: A Reek of Cement In Fuji's Shadow | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...first and just about only clubhouse meeting. "I've got a job to do, and you've got a job to do," rasped Bauer. "I'm paid to manage, and you're paid to play." Next came Bauer's Rules of Behavior: a midnight curfew, jacket and tie at all times on the road, no drinking at the hotel where the team was staying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Old Potato Face | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...City. Outfielder Willie Kirkland showed up three days late for spring training. Bauer fined him $100 for each day, then sold him to Washington-a comedown that could cost Willie approximately $10,000 in bonus money if the Orioles win the pennant. Three young players who missed a midnight curfew by 20 minutes got off with lighter sentences: two laps around the field, double time. "Just remember," said Bauer, "if you ream me, I got the last ream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Old Potato Face | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...homes at will, and jail "elements considered dangerous to national security." Violators of public order were to be handed over to military courts; terrorists, saboteurs and "speculators harmful to the national economy" who were caught redhanded were to be sentenced to death. That night, an 11 o'clock curfew was clamped on Saigon, and censors moved in on the capital's 40-odd newspapers and political scandal sheets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Shaken City | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...averaged 4.45 yards per carry over six seasons and in 1957 tied a Bears record of four touchdowns in a single game; in an auto accident that also killed Bears End John Farrington, 28, when their Volkswagen flipped as they raced to beat an eleven o'clock curfew at training camp; in Rensselaer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 7, 1964 | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

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