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...AVRAMESCU Haifa, Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 16, 1964 | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

...Haifa and Tel Aviv, the major movie theaters were half empty. Throughout Israel, hundreds of thousands of Jews sat listening by their radios, many with Bible in hand. Jerusalem's big Convention Hall was jammed to its 3,000-seat capacity and, said an official, "We could have sold out the hall five times over." It was time for the third International Bible Quiz, a triennial event that has become an international institution in the land of Benjamin and Ben-Gurion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bible: Jerusalem Olympics | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...boatel, makes this possible as never before. Travelers drive their cars on board and park them themselves, have complete access to them at any time they choose during the voyage. And the price is surprisingly right. A family of four, plus car, can make the trip between Naples and Haifa for little more than $350 one way. A single person can do it for as little as $120 with a car, $75 without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: And Now--the Boatel | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...telephone" for deaf-mutes, developed at Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, uses a compact set of vibrators to communicate as many as 67 words a minute. The "speaker" taps out his message on a set of switches built into a piano-like keyboard. The "listener," his fingers resting on a duplicate keyboard, feels each key or combination of keys vibrate in response to the speaker's signals. According to the telephone's U.S.-born inventor, Aeronautical Engineer Joseph Hirsch, it is a simple matter to put the letters of the alphabet and actual words into an easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Jobs for the Jiggle | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

Though the Métro is the first to experiment with rubber tires on a subway, the Michelin tires have been in use for nearly five years on a mile-long funicular railway that runs cars up and down Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Last week Montreal ordered rubber-tired rolling stock based on the Metro design for the 9½-mile subway it plans to build. Transaco, a French investment firm that is marketing the Metro system, recently signed technical contracts with Istanbul and Rio de Janeiro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Riding on Air | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

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