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...trial lawyer he was before entering Congress. He refused to inject himself as a private manipulator between Quill and the Transit Authority, insisted that the three-man team of mediators be the only go-between. He made it clear that labor would no longer be able to make any sub rosa deals with the mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Mike's Strike | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

Except for cyclists, who find that decreased air resistance can make up for the effects of decreased oxygen for as long as five minutes, a competitor in an event that lasts more than about 1½ minutes will almost certainly turn in a sub-par performance. Says Dr. Hanley: "We found that boxers in Mexico City who were used to two-minute rounds really had problems when the rounds ran three minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympics: In the High, Thin Air | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...correct these inaccuracies. Instead, it claimed the biggest victories of all, until it began to make all war reporting look ridiculous. On one occasion, when the press was clucking in astonishment over a German submarine that had traveled as far as the U.S. coast, the Duck announced that the sub had done even better than that-it had been built and launched in Baltimore. The other French papers excitedly picked up the story. Exulted the Duck: "The stupidity of these great papers is so enormous that they fell upon this fable like a pig on a truffle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Anarchists' Weekly | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

Died. Dr. William Randolph Lovelace II, 57, pioneering space doctor and NASA's director of medicine; of exposure after the crash of his twin-engine Beechcraft in sub-zero weather near Aspen in the Colorado Rockies which also cost the lives of his wife and the pilot. A onetime Mayo Clinic surgeon, Lovelace turned to aerospace as wartime head of Army Air Forces medical research at Wright Field; he developed the first satisfactory oxygen mask for high-altitude flight, and played a role in virtually every major high-altitude development since, thus becoming NASA's inevitable choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 24, 1965 | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

B.S.C., playing squad ball, found relief in a 20-girl bench. Only seven Cliffies suited up, and the team's lone sub "didn't really care to go into the game," Dolores Shipposh, the team's coach, said last night. The anonymous sub had never played basketball before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Sextet Swallows Loss In B.S.C. Fray | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

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