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What took ingenuity was figuring out how to operate a modern hotel at a profit and still provide for the 613 commandments Orthodox Jews must ob serve at all times. An Orthodox Jew cannot so much as press a button on the Sabbath, so the elevators are preset to go...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judaism: Synagogue with Bedrooms | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

Back in the '20s and '30s, radio made election nights social occasions. Armed with pencils and ruled-off pads, the group around the set had plenty of time for argument and suspense, listening to the votes pile up. Television took the pencil-and-paper fun out of things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Button, Button, Who's Got the Winner? | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

Standing Ovation. No one was more surprised than Princeton. Ivy League colleges give scholarships to athletes only if they are needy as well as muscular. Son of a well-to-do bank president, Bradley did not qualify. So he paid to play, led the Princeton freshmen to a 10-4...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Basketball: Paying to Play | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

"This Is Unbelievable." And that Cooper tried. Normally a slow starter, he rushed from his corner, nailed Clay with a flurry of whistling lefts that brought the blood rushing from yon Cassius' pretty nose. "This is unbelievable," a BBC announcer shouted into his ringside microphone. "Cooper is boxing magnificently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: Murder on the BBC | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

The fishermen themselves do the talk ing, passing out friendly tips to the chairborne clods at home (wade like a silent Indian, watch your shadow, keep your hooks sharp). One man, using what looks like two-ton test line, demonstrates his fantastic casting skill by flicking successfully into a 50...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Where the Action Is | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

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