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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Murray Schisgal sees life as a sickness from which most people recover, and he amusingly deflates the gassy, self-pitying bosh that is said about it. Alan Arkin, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson ride this troika of hilarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 9, 1965 | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...registered Negroes, "and every damn election they've got to bribe them." What is more, he added, they had to be bribed according to class. "There are $2 voters, $5 voters and $10 voters," he declared. "And they know each other too. The $10 voters would not ride to the polls with a $2 voter-it's beneath their dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: The Continuing Confrontation | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...pickings were slim, Willie Shoemaker had to admit-but what was the nation's No. 1 jockey to do on May 1 except ride in the Kentucky Derby? Last week the Shoe decided that his Derby Day mount would be Ada L. Rice's Lucky Debonair, winner of last month's Santa Anita Derby. "He's a nice running horse," shrugged Willie. "Not big, but he gives you his best." Faint praise, maybe, but the bookmakers were impressed. They installed Lucky Debonair as the early favorite at 3-1 to win the 91st...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: The Munificent Obsession | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...Canary Islands to the South Indian Ocean, dozens of electronic computers guided, watched, advised and occasionally admonished the two astronauts. In fact, the Space Age's first orbiting digital computer, a hatbox-sized model that can make 7,000 separate calculations a second, went along for the ride in Gemini. No space effort-American or Russian-had ever before made such extensive use of the computer, or depended more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Cybernated Generation | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...like the smaller two-engine French Caravelle and three-engine Boeing medium-range 727. This design leaves its swept-back wingspan uncluttered, permits slower landing speeds, shorter takeoffs and more dependable lift. For the passengers, there is more comfort: more leg room, improved air conditioning and a considerably quieter ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Comfortable but Costly | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

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