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...Reporting on the Vatican is one of the busiest and most productive assignments available to a correspondent," says TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn. He should know: for all but five of the past 22 years he has been on that beat (from 1974 to 1979, Wynn was based in Cairo). He has contributed to eleven cover stories on the Roman Catholic Church and on four Popes, beginning with John XXIII. "But covering Pope John Paul II has been especially gratifying," says Wynn. "He has a real knack for getting into the news. Altogether, TIME has done eight cover stories...
...Express became one of the first new carriers to go into business after the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, Burr's fledgling venture consisted of little more than one abandoned, rat- infested terminal in Newark and three used Boeing 737s purchased from Lufthansa. Today, People Express is the tenth busiest airline in the U.S., carrying nearly 1 million passengers a month. Some of its fares are one- fourth those of its competitors, but its profits for 1984 will total $23.5 million...
...York City has been host to 42 films, among them Garbo Talks and Falling in Love with Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro. The next two busiest states are Texas and Florida. Although Florida Governor Bob Graham's goal is to make the state the film center of the world within 20 years, Texas, where 30 feature film and television productions were shot last year, appears to have as good a chance of becoming the "third coast...
...Marsden's busiest times, he recalls, was in 1975 during the nova in Cygnus, one of the brighest novas-star formations-of this century. Marsden received a report in his office on the Friday afternoon of the Labor Day weekend from an astronomer in Japan...
...crew had every right to be proud. With that uneventful touchdown, NASA could claim a strikingly successful debut for Discovery, the newest member of its three-shuttle fleet. For six exhausting days on Flight 41D, six astronauts tackled the busiest shuttle agenda ever, twice staying up past their assigned bedtimes to troubleshoot glitches. Every task, however, from knocking a pesky hunk of ice off the ship's hull to operating manually a drugmaking machine that was supposed to be controlled by computers, was completed on time...