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...could be that this success will light a spark, indeed a fire, in the President. His cool and distant smile of the past months could not hide all the hurt in his eyes from the rising national doubts about his competence. As Americans cheer his Camp David achievement, Jimmy Carter with luck and wisdom could be born again a second time in a way that could lift this nation as well as himself. Men in public service are nourished by justified public acclaim. Carter's time has at last come...
...With the black-and-red Sandinista flag flying from the bus and the guerrillas waving their rifles, it looked like a victory parade," reported TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich from the scene. "All along the eight-mile route, thousands of Nicaraguans assembled to catch a glimpse and cheer them on like conquering heroes. 'Down with Somoza!' and 'Viva Sandinista!' they shouted. Thousands of others waited at the terminal. 'Yes, they are our heroes,' said one youth. 'To hell with Somoza!' " At the airport, the commandos, who had settled for $500,000 after winning their other demands, armed their...
...American fans had a lot more to cheer about. As usual, the U.S. men's team won handily, with Soviet and East German swimmers trailing badly. Meanwhile, as the competition entered its final weekend, the American women had won 19 gold medals while the East Germans had not won a single final. California's Cynthia Woodhead won three golds, as did fellow Californian Linda Jezek, who swam off with a world record in the 200-meter backstroke. She finished in 2:11.93, more than two seconds ahead of East Germany's Birgit Treiber, the former record holder and the winner...
...recognition. Companies now calling themselves Equifax and Standex want to plant themselves in the public mind, while signaling that they are in tune with the technotronic times. And hucksters have long relied on the power of a clever name to sway a customer's decision. The popularity of Cheer and All among detergents, and Mustang and Diplomat among autos, is no more due to the properties of the merchandise than the box-office power of a John Wayne movie is usually owed to artistic excellence. The hottest new perfume, now U.S.-bound from Paris, is called Opium. No telling...
...each show, Springsteen will drop to one knee in front of the mike and yell with the sort of mock melodrama that cloaks an almost literal truth, "I'm just a prisoner . . . of rock 'n' roll!" In the audience, his fellow lifers laugh and cheer, delirious inmates in the same cell. Of all those prisoners, though, only the Boss holds...