Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CLEVELAND 105, PHILADELPHIA 102; STEELERS BLAST BILLS; SEAVER HURLS TWO-HITTER- such is the stuff of which basic sports reporting is made. As a weekly newsmagazine, however, TIME has never wanted to deliver to its readers a day-by-day account of what TV calls "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." Rather, as Sport Writer Philip Taubman puts it, "our contribution can be to go into stories with more depth or come at them from another direction." So it is with Taubman's cover story this week on Goalie Bernie Parent of the Philadelphia Flyers, whose...
...said, from the ancestral Indian practice of demanding reparations for a crime, as well as from the Anglo-Saxon concept of wergild ("mangold"), which translates roughly as payment or satisfaction. "Any fine I would levy would go to the Government, and that would be like spitting in a blast furnace," went Muecke's tart reasoning...
...HAVE A FRIEND named Paul, whose father works at a blast furnace at a steel mill in Gary. Indiana Paul relates this story: at least five times a week his father comes home from work sometime after midnight, having done his time on the middle shift 1 p.m. to midnight at the mill. Apparently he cannot bring himself to go to bed; the heat, the lean and the tension of his work do not allow him to sleep, but instead compel him to turn on an all night local country music station, which he plass so loud that...
...high (100,000 ft.) and so fast (2,000 m.p.h. plus) that it was able to cruise near Peking's first H-bomb explosion over the Lob Nor desert of northeastern Sinkiang province in 1967. It took photographs and gathered data without being damaged by the blast. After such daring forays, SR-71 pilots would decorate their fuselages with the silhouette of a cobra-like poisonous snake called the habu, which inhabits a Pacific island where SR-71s are based. When TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin noticed that an SR-71 on public display near Washington in 1973 bore...
Died. Lalit Narayan Mishra, 51, India's Minister for Railways; during emergency surgery for wounds suffered in a bomb blast; in Patna, India (see THE WORLD...