Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month a new 59-bed, $500,000 hospital at Pacific Home will be dedicated by Governor Earl Warren and U.C.L.A.'s Provost Clarence Dykstra. Built by the contributions of the wealthy residents of Pacific Home and Claremont Manor, Pacific Home Memorial Hospital will be complete with laboratory, X-ray machines and the latest in surgical gadgets...
...Herald-American Photographer Joe Migon had pulled back the lining of his shoe, chiseled a hole in the heel big enough to hold a tiny (3 by 1 by ¾ in.) Minox camera, then concealed it with the lining. Migon had thus carried the camera undetected past the X-ray eyes of the Cook County jail "inspecto-scope," which had looked no farther down than his ankles. Once seated at the execution, Cameraman Migon slipped off his shoe, fished out the camera and made his shot while the eyes of other witnesses were fixed on the dreadful scene...
...They will have books, magazines and newspapers, just like a home. They will have radio and television and recording attachments on the telephones so that the guest will receive his messages in the actual words in which they're given. Bathrooms, besides their present equipment, will have ultraviolet-ray machines, suntan and infrared lamps . . . What do you think of a future like that...
Ever since the Louis-Walcott fight, televised championships have become the rarity. Ray Robinson and others balked when prospective sponsors wouldn't pay over $50,000 in rights; only once last year--after a sellout house had been assured--did the TV camera follow championship boxing. However, there has been this one compromise: in general, only the setowners within a 50 or 75 mile radius of the stadium are done out of their television, for outside this area the promoters have no worries...
...outlook is not so encouraging as it was this stage of the season last year. At that time, Jordan had Dan Ray, Don Louria, and Howie Houston, and these three men were largely responsible for Harvard's going undefeated in its first three matches. However, Ray and Louria were graduated at mid-term and this left a serious dent in Jordan's middle-weight strength. Harvard floundered through the rest of the season using various replacements at their weights and winning only two more matches...