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...final marathon negotiating session ended at 2 a.m. Thursday, but the treaty documents could not be taken to Vienna until midday Friday. One reason: the Soviets in Geneva had to make do with primitive manual typewriters, cumbersome paper almost as thick as cardboard and a 1950s-vintage copying machine. If a typist made a single error, the page had to be retyped. The Americans used a high-speed word-processing machine; errors could be corrected almost instantaneously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Khorosho,' Said Brezhnev | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

Long before man created rock and roll there was folk music. And the multitudes partook of it and rejoiced. Then the album was born, and folk music was flattened into little round discs, trapped in cardboard envelopes, and smothered in cellophane. Although folk manages to live on, its spirit died in the recording studio...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: A Scoop Behind the Coop | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

Innovations like reducing the weight of vehicles are being made in the name of gas conservation, while the safety factor is being ignored. The American public is gradually succumbing to cars resembling no more than cardboard boxes; one accident and it's all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 16, 1979 | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...white shorts will place his racquet alongside the court at the sports club and say his prayers. An airline steward will spread out a towel in the corridor of a plane to pray. Workers in the fields will remove their boots at noon and kneel on pieces of cardboard. Mahmoud Hassan Sharaf, 76, a Bedouin who lives on the edge of the Sahara, explains the peace he finds in prayer: "If I don't pray my heart is angry. When I pray my heart is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of Islam | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...citizenry was concerned. March 15th was fast approaching, and no buzzard had come to call. On the appointed day, 30 members of the Buzzard Club who had traveled from St. Louis to celebrate the event anxiously scanned the skies. They were well fortified against the cold and wore yellow cardboard beaks on their faces. Suddenly Park Ranger Bud Burger, peering through high-powered binoculars, spotted a distinctive shape soaring high over a snow-covered field. Moments later, a buzzard glided to a perch in a tall tree about a mile away. There was jubilation among the onlookers. If the buzzards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Omen of Spring | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

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