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...front, red to the rear and to the side-tracing an eye-catching pattern of moving light in all three directions from which a car may come. Last year 69,100 bike riders were injured and 540 were killed by cars, and most of these accidents happened in dusk or darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highway: New Light on the Bike | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...Head. From dawn till dusk, Red China's 38-player squad hammered away at the ball, pausing for tea and calisthenics every half-hour or so. "These Chinese," marveled Japan's former World Champion Ichiro Ogimura, "play basketball and volleyball and do special exercises. They practice gymnastics to develop agility, lift weights to build up certain muscles." They also keyed themselves to fever pitch emotionally. China's Hsu Yin-sheng explained that his forehand was so powerful because he looked on a Ping-Pong ball "as though it were the head of Chiang Kai-shek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table Tennis: A Game of War | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...gray day left the dusk in doubt. Now it is dark. Nightfall and no stars are out, But this black wind will set its mark Like anger on the souls that stir From chimney side or sepulcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Professors: Free Verse | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

...rollers, metal or plastic, ranging up to 3 in. in diameter and designed to subdue, not support, the slightest hint of curl. What rollers cost is sleep, and women who cannot get used to a Japanese wooden neck rest have only one choice: set at dusk and sit up till dawn or set by day, rest easy at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: The Day of the Roller | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...steelhead trout fishing trip [Jan. 1], I arose at 5 a.m., drove 2½ hours over snow-covered roads, experienced a near-fatal skid, stood from dawn to dusk in icy, chest-high water, and was buffeted by 50-knot gales. After being forced to drive the last 32 miles of the return trip home at 15 m.p.h. because of ice and slush, I at last staggered into the house at 8 p.m. proudly holding aloft the object of my efforts-a nine-pound "buck" steelhead! What do you mean, steelhead fishermen are "screwy people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 15, 1965 | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

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