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I began airhitching, the last leg of a summer hitching to-fro' across America, by turning my back on I-90 and following the signs for the Billings, Montana airport. I had grown tired of hitching on a ramrod highway flopped down in dusty desolation and sustaining tin-diner towns...

Author: By Jim Tyson, | Title: Chariots of the Gods | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

The airport terminal was a series of concrete blocks set on a butte overlooking Billings. Winds buffetted dead and splayed planes sitting on the cracked runway. A lone, bearded pilot inspected his single-engine Cessna 140. "Excuse me sir, I'm a college student who must get back East as...

Author: By Jim Tyson, | Title: Chariots of the Gods | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

The 1970s diverged socially, politically and psychologically from the paths and contours that the futurists imagined. Actuality put the lie to most prophecies long before anybody in the U.S. had even heard of the Ayatullah Khomeini or imagined the trouble he would bring. Well before Iran, it was evident that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Why Forecasters Flubbed the '70s | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

Among the candidates themselves, only an intricate arrangement for billings and credits prevents squabbles. For example: each candidate's literature also lists the entire slate. But not in alphabetical order, presumably because that would aid Francis Duehay and hurt David Wylie. So candidates begin the list with the name closest...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Buddy System | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Pay attention, now, and no giggling in the back rows, please. Raquel Welch, 38, is making a three-hour TV epic called The Legend of Walks Far Woman near Billings, Mont. Raquel plays Ms. Woman, a squaw of Sioux and Blackfoot pedigree whose tale is traced from the 1870s to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 3, 1979 | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

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