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Minneapolis named its new $55 million stadium after a delightfully long-winded favorite son. So it was no small irony that the roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome collapsed for lack of hot air. Two months ago, the stadium's ten-acre nylon cover was inflated with electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Whoosh Goes the Big Top | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

In the latest episode of what might be called Barbara Walters Talks with a Celebrity and Actually Dresses Just Like the Interviewee specials, Walters headed west to Ronald and Nancy Reagan's 688-acre ranch high in the chaparral country of California's Santa Ynez mountains. Walters decked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 7, 1981 | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

The world's No. 1 celebrity cat, Morris, has no problems. He is the feline Burt Reynolds, and his large, complacent, orange tabby face graces the popular 9-Lives cat-food commercials on TV. Not only does Morris exhibit no discernible emotional disorders, he is unflappable. With dubbed TV...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy over Cats | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Many Texans are willing to call it a draw. "Dallas was bigger first," says Houston Department Store Owner Robert Sakowitz. "Then Houston caught up. Now neither is in the other's shadow." Still, neither town seems able, or willing, to stop one-upping the other. Houston has a 44...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Little Rivalry in Texas | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

The responsibility system is a triumph for material incentives. Only a few years ago, even raising chickens or pigs privately was ruthlessly condemned as an example of "taking the capitalist road." Today families can decide for themselves how best to farm their land, and some family members have been freed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Revolution Down on the Farm | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

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