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Muggers attack in broad daylight. Churches lock their doors because, as one clergyman explains, "Too many bums come in, wander around and take what they like." Last week a purse snatcher was shot to death by a rookie patrolman; a 40-year-old man was beaten to death in his home with a leg wrenched by a couple of intruders from his end table; a bank was robbed and police pursued the bandits through the streets while passers-by scattered to escape the gunfire. All this is in Washington. D.C., the nation's capital and a city tortured...
Awori, a member of Uganda's 1960 Olympic team, established a new University and cage record of: 05.1 in leading a Crimson sweep of the 40 yard high hurdles. Observers claimed that it was impossible to see daylight between Awori and Hank Hatch, although officials clocked Hatch...
...mean it? But look deeper. His comedy is grounded in an innocence as perfect as a baby's-or a saint's. Not since the late Harry Langdon of the silent days has the screen shown a comedian who, caught tiptoeing past the Big Top in broad daylight with a stolen elephant in tow, could throw up his hands and say with almost mystical fervor: "What elephant...
...even New York's farmers, says Speno, would object any more to having an extra daylight hour of leisure time in the afternoon. After an informal survey across the state, Speno found that "farms are pretty well automated by now, and the cows and chickens can take care of themselves." Among other potential advantages he cites: children returning home from school would no 'longer have to trek in the dark, and, most important, adults making the trip home after work would be saved the hazards of twilight driving. Throughout the state, as well as in Manhattan, more traffic...
Other areas of the country where farmers are a greater percentage of the population are still loyal to standard time. But Speno becomes almost rhapsodic when he thinks about daylight saving time: "Light seems to lengthen our days and our lives because time is really an experience of the mind. The light will end for each of us, and maybe for all of us suddenly. It is certainly within our power now to rescue an hour of light every day for six more months of the year...