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...week's cover stories on Return of the Jedi, the third installment of the Star Wars saga, San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson crossed the Golden Gate Bridge to San Rafael to explore the mysteries of the film's wondrous special effects in, of all places, a common cinder-block warehouse. There, and at a similar illusion factory in Van Nuys, Calif., Han Solo's Millennium Falcon spaceship first blasted into hyperspace, and E.T., C-3PO, R2-D2 and Jedi's furry Ewoks were born. Says Thompson, who has reported stories for TIME on subjects ranging from...
...done. One of the world's greatest designers took one of the world's fashion press by her unyielding arm and steered her through his fall collection, explaining. Pity the poor woman. She looked as if she had just been concussed by a cinder block from the Twilight Zone. Pity the poor designer. He was paying the price for doing something different...
...chaotic to an untrained eye, it is run as efficiently as IBM. It is laid out like a Viet Cong tunnel system. The empty buildings are warrens filled with dealing and supply points, escape routes and booby traps for police. Apartments are fortified: door ways are bricked up with cinder blocks, leaving only a small opening for the passing of drugs and money, or blocked by bunkers of diamond-plate steel. Some dealers sell by lowering buckets from apartment landings; the stairs leading to the landings have been removed. The big-time dealers organize "clubs" that change locations every...
...track, which has been in the planning stages since the fall, will replace two obsolete cinder tracks now in the Soldiers Field complex. Its surface will be designed according to the same innovative principles as the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis building's circuit...
Freeman began the night at 8:45, when he caught a shuttle for the garage, which lies across the river, beyond Harvard Stadium. In a bare cinder block office, he asked Number 67, it seems has as much as any driver could ask for a sound engine and, more important, a working radio. But 67 was already taken so Freeman scuttled for number 32, took the keys, and headed for Lamont...