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Boating is so popular in Texas because it is so improbable. Although Gulf Coast residents have long had access to water, most other Texans until fairly recently have not been able to find enough water to skip a stone. But in the past 20 years, government dams and flood-control projects have created scores of man-made lakes that dot Texas' parched and sweltering flatlands (there are only about half a dozen natural lakes in Texas). Because of Texas' excellent, uncrowded highways, distance is no object. One industrialist trailed his cabin cruiser behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: The Prairie Schooners | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

Azikiwe is also an excellent hop, and jump man, and is favored to win the Heptagonal at this year. (The hop skip and is not and event in dual meets at this time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Track Team Aims At Best Season in History | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...Louis station, whose 50 kw., clear channel signal sweeps the plains and burrows into the valleys of a large part of mid-America. Last year General Manager Robert Hyland, fed up with 24 hours of music, decided on a final gamble before getting out. His novel plan: skip the disks for four prime hours daily and substitute news, interviews, listener questions and erudite conversationalists. After what Hyland recalls was "the longest pause in broadcasting," station staffers agreed to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: From Platter to Chatter | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...last four right, you may skip the next three letters to the editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 14, 1961 | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...suspicious modern that Homer's epic is not a supernatural swindle but the narrative of a man in trouble-the "first novel," as one translator put it-and that Fitzgerald's English version is in the crisp demotic argot of today. The new translation, however, does not skip or try to improve on the few familiar Homeric cliches: the sea is still "wine-dark" or "fish-cold"; the dawn is still "rosy-fingered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Most Unlikely God | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

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