Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Correspondent Stanley Cloud first met Jimmy Carter some 15 months ago while reporting for our "Candidates '76" series on the presidential hopefuls. Cloud flew to New Hampshire to join the Carter campaign because "it seemed a good time to take a look at an outsider and a dark horse." Though he arrived late one night at the Ramada Inn where Carter was staying, Cloud decided to touch base with Jody Powell, the candidate's press secretary. He called a number obtained from the room clerk. A sleepy voice answered in a soft Southern accent. "Mr. Powell?" Cloud asked...
...Cloud did not ask "Jimmy who?"-though many other Americans often did in those days. None would today. After one of the most astonishing rises to power in the history of the republic, Jimmy is less than a month away from being sworn in as President. He was a natural choice as TIME's Man of the Year. Nevertheless, as always, TIME's editors made the selection only after reviewing the events of the past year and discussing the newsmakers who shaped those events. Then a contingent of TIME staffers disappeared from their regular offices and began working...
...preparation for the cover, Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart, Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey, Correspondent Bonnie Angelo and Cloud interviewed the President-elect in his Plains home last week. Carter had been told by Powell three weeks ago that he was TIME's Man of the Year. His response: "Oh really? I hadn't given any consideration to that." At the time, Carter's mind was preoccupied with selection of his Cabinet. Much of his deliberation took place in his study, overlooked by a framed portrait that ran on the cover of TIME...
...born. In our galaxy and in galaxies yet to be discovered, stars are going through a continuous cycle of birth, life and death. Indeed, there are places where the observer who knows what to look for can practically see stars forming before his eyes. These star wombs are great clouds of gas and dust floating in interstellar space. Like the clouds that formed in the expanding primordial fireball shortly after the big bang, they consist mostly of nature's simplest molecule, hydrogen. A star is born when some force, perhaps a shock wave, drives enough of the hydrogen molecules...
Long since stripped of their electrons by the high temperatures, the nuclei of the hydrogen atoms slam together at tremendous speeds, fusing to form helium and releasing huge amounts of energy. Though the nuclear fires have been lit, the actual ignition is hidden deep within the interstellar clouds. "Nature very discreetly pulls the curtain over the act of birth," says Thaddeus. But the infant star soon makes its presence known, shining through and illuminating the obscuring cloud. This process is occurring in the Orion Nebula (see color page), the illuminated portion of a gigantic cloud of gas and dust that...