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...many of their fellow Americans. Cover Writer Ed Magnuson, who performed his duties in the comfortable 70° temperature of his 25th-floor office overlooking a frigid Manhattan, had no difficulty even in those circumstances in conjuring up the vivid sensations of his Minnesota boyhood, when winter temperatures could dip as low as -40° and cross-country skiing on the Mississippi River outside his door was a fairly common sport. The cold fact is that this is Magnuson's 65th cover story for TIME, another record for the week. For Associate Editor Peter Stoler, who wrote the accompanying...
...time, each devotee performed an elaborate bathing ceremony that took up to a month, but with millions now in attendance such rituals are impossible. Most ordinary worshipers simply float a coconut shell with offerings to the local deity, take the "holy dip," and fill small metal vials with Ganges water to take away...
...Unemployment will average 7.3% during 1977 but dip to 6.9% by the fourth quarter. That would mark a reduction of only about a point in the current jobless rate. The actual number of unemployed Americans, currently 7.8 million, might not go down at all, particularly if women and young blacks continue to enter the labor market at this year's high rate...
...Every new President seems to dip into his own special talent pool to fill key posts. John Kennedy plucked many of his New Frontiersmen from the Harvard faculty. Richard Nixon staffed his Government with many graduates of U.C.L.A. President-elect Jimmy Carter is expected to draw heavily on two talent repositories-the Trilateral Commission in New York City and the Brookings Institution in Washington...
...ordered a series of wide-mouthed jars filled with isopropyl alcohol. When Stewart used a comb, he was to dip it into the alcohol before using it again, to "sterilize...