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Hal Edward Noelke whumps out across his 18,000-acre ranch in his Bell bubble helicopter. "This mesquite," he shouts above the rotor clatter, "is a very competent adversary." Noelke can run his eye across the vast dun-brown landscape (gentle hills, a sweep of mesas off toward the horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Texas: The Great Mesquite Wars | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

Actually, it will take a series of miracles to keep the deficits out of the twelve-digit range, which the budget document concedes "would impose extreme pressures on financial markets-[and] undermine the outlook for continued monetary restraint, reduced inflation and economic growth." To begin with, the estimate that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Time to Retreat: Reagan on more arms and no big tax hikes | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

Set in the middle of 1,400-acre Balboa Park, the mock-Elizabethan building looks from the outside somewhat the way Shakespeare's own Globe was supposed to look, with leaded windows, half-timbering and a second floor jutting out over the first. It is too cute, but it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Old Globe | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

After the American and European television crews leave, life at Camp Cuba-Nicaragua returns to its normal desolation and languor. The 68-acre site, a leased former sunflower farm, resembles a vacated M*A*S*H stage set or a jerry-built guerrilla dude ranch. Gonzalez says his intention is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Camp Cuba-Nicaragua | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

The Met's architects, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates, designed nearly an acre of elegant, muted space with such tact that the architecture never overwhelms or interferes with what it displays. Its climax is a slope-walled glass house-a twin to the gallery that houses the Egyptian Temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Primitive Splendor at the Met | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

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