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...longshot in the first race at Rockingham last Monday won with ease and paid $11.20. Flushed with this success, we advise putting your life savings on Dark Sun in today's tenth race. The stable has this five-year old sharpened up for a big betting coup, and the odds should be about 10-1. He can't lose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LONGSHOT ANDY'S HOT TIP OF THE DAY | 7/26/1965 | See Source »

...twin pistols hidden in the girl's brassière. Playing a Jane Bond out to earn her diploma in legal killing from the Central World Government circa 2000 A.D., Ursula straps on the sexshooter and goes hunting for Marcello Mastroianni, 40, in a homicidal fantasy called The Tenth Victim, now being filmed in Rome. Studio technicians ad mit they're still trying to figure out how she's supposed to fire a double-barreled bra. Other ordnance for the film: a boomerang Beretta, a "poodle pistol," and possibly a "tummy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 2, 1965 | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

That should have been that. But the Reds were not tearing the cover off the ball either. Into the tenth inning the game went, with the score tied 0-0. Maloney retired the Mets in order, striking out two more. Again Cincinnati failed to score. Then it was the eleventh, and up came Met Outfielder Johnny Lewis, possessor of a .245 average. The count went to two-and-one before Maloney made his only mistake of the night: a waist-high fastball, straight down the pipe. Bang! Home run. Final score: Mets 1, Reds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Nice to Have MET You | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

...strict economic standards, building modern passenger ships to ply the Atlantic makes little sense. A luxury liner costs upwards of $50 million; a utilitarian jet costs one-tenth as much, can carry 15% more passengers over the same distance in the same amount of time. Moreover, the airlines have captured four-fifths of the Atlantic business, and several shipping companies are in trouble. These cold facts do not, however, chill the warmly sentimental directors of the state-run Italian Line. In the greatest investment in money and tonnage ever made by a shipping company in a single year, the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Double Feature | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

Married. Princess Anne of France, 26, daughter of the Count of Paris, Bourbon pretender to the French throne; and Prince Carlos de Bourbon, 27, man-about-Madrid, her tenth cousin, himself a disputed minor pretender to the Spanish throne; in Dreux, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 21, 1965 | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

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