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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where was the man? The world's most valuable twin-double ticket was finally claimed, not on the hour but nearly two days later, and not by the perennial underdog but by a platoon of upper-income New Jersey businessmen who arrived at the track in a long green Cadillac and left behind them the dis tinct impression of a gamble involving neither luck nor love of the game but of a cold-eyed investment by men who know their way around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Seven Men on Four Horses | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

Most of the students intend to get degrees; of those who do, more than half go on to graduate school, often in the face of severe obstacles. A house wife from Leonia, N.J., spent 800 hours commuting by bus to Morningside Heights in upper Manhattan for four years to get a degree enabling her to continue graduate studies at Columbia's Russian Institute. Even the jet set touches down at G.S. Ex-Actress Jo Ann Bliss, wife of the president of the Metropolitan Opera Association, expects a degree in art history next year. Top student in the class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: For Adults Only | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...rate of economic change increases, fertility control becomes the habit of the entire population rather just of the upper ranks of society, he said...

Author: By Stephen Bello, | Title: Piel Says Present Contraceptives Cannot Check Population Growth | 5/6/1964 | See Source »

...Crimson got a break on a Princeton penalty, however, and Tink Gunnoe rammed a shot into the upper left corner at 10:45. Wood scored after taking another Ames pass at 13:09, but before the cheering had died Pete Porietis scooped the face-off and passed to Moore for Princeton's sixth goal...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Princeton Beats Lax Team, 7-6 | 5/4/1964 | See Source »

...major survival aid proved to be a new plastic air bag tucked into the rear of one seat; inflated before impact, it spread backward in two sections-one over the feet and legs of the dummy in the seat behind, the other over its upper body-and cushioned that "passenger" against impact injury. Such bags, which can be inflated by a switch in the pilot's compartment when a crash seems probable, are the first devices for individual passenger safety under serious consideration by the industry since the safety belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Safety: Delightful Destruction | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

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