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Although the end probably wouldn't be too hard to find from there, (the woman in the Chamber of Commerce jokes that you just have to jump on Route 81 and head south for a few minutes). Wessman and his loyal contingent argue that Grand Forks is not worse than any other part of the region...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: The Biggest Show in Town | 3/25/1983 | See Source »

...first orbiter, Columbia, when the throttle is fully opened. Realizing that this extra power would vibrate the spacecraft more violently, NASA engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center made a design change. They ordered reinforcement of the metal piping that carries hot, gaseous hydrogen fuel into the small chamber where the engines are first fired up and begin revving to their full 480,000 lbs. of thrust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: A New Setback for the Shuttle | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...There are two fresh indicators that double-mindedness is alive and hale around here. One is F.E. Draper, who successfully brought liquor to Colbert and then, feeling muscular, ran for county commission chairman. Soundly defeated, he said, "I committed political suicide in heading up that drive." Another is the Chamber of Commerce in still dry Florence, a town that has forever looked down a patrician nose at Colbert County. The view has always been that field hands and factory workers live over there in Colbert, while management lives back across the river here in Lauderdale. Now, however, the dry Chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alabama: Voting Dry and Practicing Wet | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...fancy (the Queen never carries money -too unseemly); her private secretary, Sir Philip Moore, who supervises the handling of the Queen's "boxes," which contain state pa pers waiting for the royal cipher; and two Scotland Yard detectives. As for security, ever since the matutinal intruder in her chamber last summer, she sleeps with a small alarm next to her bed connected to the room of an alert royal page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Royal Road Show Begins | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...association to woo ski clubs and conventions. Even if the new tax is approved, Aspen faces an uphill battle. For one thing, the baby boomers who led the rush to the slopes are older now. "The skiing hotshots of the '60s are married now with three children," says Chamber of Commerce President Tom Clark. "We need to work harder to get them." Mindful of the family crowd, police have cracked down on overt cocaine use. Another problem: more resorts fighting for a stable pool of skiers. Since 1975 the number of ski areas in Colorado alone has snowballed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downhill Slope | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

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