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The skipper, Ted Turner, entered every contest mouth-first. The boat, Courageous, was secondhand. The oddsmakers, having surveyed the competition-two new 12-meter yachts constructed for the 23rd defense of the America's Cup-had consigned the captain and his Courageous to third place. But last week, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mouth of the South' at the Helm | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

No less rude was Brezhnev's decision to pay an unscheduled visit to Jacques Chirac, mayor of Paris and Giscard's Gaullist archrival. Rather pettily, Giscard had planned to ignore Chirac, but the cunning mayor wrote Brezhnev asking him to stop by. Brezhnev was only too happy to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Visit from a Rude Emperor | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

The man on the run was interviewed at length two weeks before he made his break by Marsha Vanden Berg, a reporter for Nashville's Tennessean. She gave TIME a glimpse of what James Earl Ray was like?and of the life he led ?just before his escape. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: RAY'S BREAKOUT | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

It was a hasty anointment, one that failed to reckon with the cunning of Dellacroce. In contrast to Galante, he dropped out of sight. But he recruited one or more look-alike stand-ins to appear publicly in his place. He will have a double either check in at a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE MAFIA Big, Bad and Booming | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

In the usual movie, it is at this point that everyone decides to cut away from character and call in the stunt coordinator to wow the audience with a big finish, a slam-bang deployment of men and matériel, all hardware and hard knocks, with nary a thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Whydunit | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

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