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With a victory tonight in Potsdam, the Crimson could go on to win the Eastern championship for the second straight year. With a loss, it's wait till next year...

Author: By Joel Havemann, | Title: Skaters to Open ECAC Defense, Meet Powerful Clarkson Away | 3/10/1964 | See Source »

...simpler ages of faith, men found it as natural and normal to pray as to till a field or yoke a brace of oxen. But prayer, like good conversation, seems to be one of the lost arts of the 20th century. After mumbling through the Lord's Prayer, modern man wonders what to do next: Ask God for a raise, or thank him for a happy vacation? What kind of words should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prayer: Better Without Words | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...companies. E.N.I, bought the deal. Last week, as he waited for the formal signing, Nicky Pignatelli happily tooled his red Ferrari around Rome, where he likes to drive through the piazzas at high speeds. "Many princes are given them early," he said of the car. "I waited till 40 to get mine. I think I've earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: End of a Feud | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

Sarah Caldwell was neglecting herself again. Her hair was stringy and matted, her clothes unbelievably shabby. She was keeping alive on a daily ration of one dozen hamburgers, with suitable amounts of coffee and Cokes. On nights when she worked till dawn, she would wrap herself up in her overcoat, ease her 300 Ibs. down into one of the aisles of her theater, and sleep. Her friends would find her there in the morning, vaguely punchy but ready for work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: The Persistent One | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...lawyer claims, went temporarily insane at news of Kennedy's assassination, there seems little doubt that he suffered a severe emotional trauma. On Sunday morning, as police prepared to transfer Lee Oswald from headquarters to the county jail, Ruby eased himself into a crowd of newsmen, waited till Oswald was brought down from his fourth-floor cell. Then he stepped up, stuck out his revolver and, as millions of televiewers watched, killed Oswald with one shot. That act, he said later, made him think he was "looking on history." He told his examiners that he thought: "I am above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Between Two Fires | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

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