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...book, its title changed to The World According to Garp, did all that. In addition it managed to churn a few stomachs and raise some blood pressures. Not everyone who read Garp responded to the novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...helicopter maintenance crews do much of their work under tents instead of in hangars. They use jury-rigged lighting and, in cold weather, kerosene heaters that military regulations prohibit as safety hazards. Across the road, 36 armed M-60 tanks stand ready to go to war-if they can churn their way out of a vast mudhole that turns into a pond whenever it rains. At Fliegerhorst barracks near Hanau, 15 miles south of Büdingen, helicopter repair crews have taken over the base's only gymnasium. They repack drive shafts on the basketball court beneath a sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Army of Self-Helpers on NATO's Front Line | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...system may be involved" [June 22]. If "externalized anger and rage" can cause an Adolf Hitler to act as he did, if it can cause men to attempt to assassinate Presidents and Popes, and shoot blank cartridges at Queens, why cannot "internalized anger and rage" cause the bowels to churn themselves into inflammatory masses, coronary arteries to turn into morbid spasms and bronchial tubes to go into asthmatic constrictions? There are many professionals who believe there may be a great psychosomatic component to Crohn's disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 13, 1981 | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...shadow of the Rocky Mountains on the rolling terrain of Browning, Mont., sits a squat, 40,000-sq.-ft. powder-blue building that houses a most unusual factory. The clattering machines that each day churn out 600,000 pens, pencils and markers are ordinary enough, but the work force is special. The warehouse manager, for example, is Donald Little Bull, and the second-shift supervisor is Le-Roy Bullshoe. The chief executive is Chief Earl Old Person, 52, head of the Blackfeet tribe and chairman of the Blackfeet Indian Writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chief Executive | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

...worldwide economic and political conditions continue to churn, more and more corporate managers are turning to political risk analysts for advice. Large oil companies and banks have always had in-house analysts to weigh the stability of nations and regions. But a survey last year by the Conference Board, a New York business study group, found that smaller and less wealthy firms are now beginning to seek out specialists as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of Stable Markets | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

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