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...fishing boat Dorchester turned up in the bay with six tons of marijuana hidden aboard, then departed leaving a web of mystery, gangland murder and suicide that narcotics agents have yet to unravel. Westward, the old naval air station at Quonset Point is now the sprawling headquarters for oil-drill teams working the Baltimore Canyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Rhode Island: Rapture of the Shallows | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...Chorus Line. Terpsichore is the divine Muse of this musical as Choreographer Michael Bennett takes the parade-ground drill of the Radio City Rockettes and raises it to a Platonic idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bumper Crop | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

Some of the riskiest gambling anywhere is not in Atlantic City, N.J., but in a rough region 75 miles or more to the east. There, 39 companies have anted up $1.1 billion for leases to drill for oil and gas deep under the sea. While there is nearly a fifty-fifty chance of winning at blackjack, the odds of striking black gold offshore are 1 in 10-and there have been a lot of losers. Last month Continental Oil Co., having drilled a 12,000-ft. dry hole in the Baltimore Canyon off the Jersey shore, capped the test site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Dry Holes and Discoveries | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...familiar: brown shirts, black breeches, high black boots; the swastika motif on their red, black and white armbands was repeated on flags massed behind them. Then, standing at attention, the men thrust their arms upward in a Heil, Hitler salute. Armed with rifles, they goose-stepped through a military drill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Resurgence on the Right | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...second-quarter penalties took a pneumatic drill to the Crimson's lead, as Princeton scored three of its next four goals a man up, while Harvard could only counter with a pair of power-play tallies by Ossyra, hence the deadlock...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Stickmen Conquer Ivy Foe Princeton, 14-10 | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

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