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Howard recounts the period much as the pragmatic Wrights must have seen it. New applications of materials and industrial technology were increasing rapidly. It was not hard to imagine a bicycle chain driving a propeller or an arrangement of spars and spoke wire strengthening a fragile open structure. From their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heads In Air, Feet on Ground WILBUR AND ORVILLE | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

That's a strange way to run the world. It would be hilarious if it were not so serious. But the Soviet penchant for bending and breaking the rules of civilized behavior has plagued every modern President. Not that we don't try our hand at the game, but it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: When in Moscow . . . | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

On the streets of Washington, "Hinckley" is slang for PCP: the drug is so mind bending that the user can end up in St. Elizabeths, the local psychiatric hospital where John Hinckley Jr. was sent after shooting Ronald Reagan in 1981. The hospital has tried to treat its notorious inmate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hinckley's Hope: He seeks a day on the town | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

The identity of the financial community's latest fallen wizard, Boyd Jefferies, may have come as less than a rude shock, since the prominent Los Angeles stock trader was known to have dealt heavily with Arbitrager Ivan Boesky. But on Wall Street, where scandal is becoming almost routine, Jefferies' announcement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serving His Clients All Too Well | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

Carefully bending a taster spoon between my teeth, I snap and catapult it at Nancy. It smacks into the back of her neck and she jerks forward into the spray hose hanging next to the smoosh board. Its handle depresses, drenching her leg with water. "Hose-shot, hose-shot!" I...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Primal 'Scream | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

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