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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earth-bound beholder but, rather, to warm the soul of the seat-of-the-pants pilot. Put-putting along a few hundred feet up at 40 m.p.h. is not like any other kind of flying that has been available for six decades. Says Mike Circuit, 37, an ultralight instructor in Salt Lake City: "It's wind in the face, flying by the feel of it, like the old barnstorming days." Agrees fellow Utahan Ken Hurd, 42: "I've never had such excitement. In a small plane, you're enclosed. Here, you're like a bird. Everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Seat-of-the-Pants Flying | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...choice on the next play for Harvard's fifth and sixth runs. With one out and two men on in the top of the sixth, a Weller single and a thoroughly embarrassing three-base error by B.C's right-fielder led to a three-run inside-the-park circuit for the Crimson center fielder...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Crimson Nine Sweeps Pair at B.C., 9-7 and 9-2 | 5/1/1982 | See Source »

...losing one to the Middies was excusable, because (a) they are one of the circuit's finer teams and (b) Harvard only avoided an 0-4 weekend with a five-run comeback in the second game, finding a way to drop two games to Princeton requires a singular effort...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Crimson Stumbles, Falls in Opening Weekend | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

...violation but also for how much publicity the prosecution will create. Last year the agency reaped extensive press clippings for its case against former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, who was convicted of not declaring as income nearly $150,000, mostly from fees earned on the lecture circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Tax Games | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...York, and On Golden Pond is one of them. "It's a lovely heartland play," says Arthur Cantor, one of the original producers. "West of Westchester, it apparently can't miss." Despite its failure on Broadway, it has become a favorite on the regional and summer-stock circuit. The original backers' investment of $240,000 was paid off last August; an average of $25,000 in royalties still comes in to the author every month from performances all over the world; and Cantor expects at least 10,000 amateur productions before that deep pond is finally drained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Real Gold in On Golden Pond | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

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