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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The object of all this enthusiasm is a 40-lb. slab of foam-filled polyethylene, 12 ft. long and shaped like a surfboard, but with a sail attached. Such a wind-surfing board will support up to 400 Ibs. The craft was invented twelve years ago when two young Californians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Try to Catch the Wind | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

Of all the ships still slaughtering whales, none is more loathed by conservationists than the infamous Sierra. Flying the Cyprus flag and owned by a shadowy Liechtenstein-based company, possibly with Japanese interests, the pirate whaler ignores all whaling agreements, hunts indiscriminately and makes its kills in a particularly cruel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Victory at Sea | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

PEAKING OF RED MEAT and pus, Dawn of the Dead, the nifty, entertaining sequel to Night of Living Dead (1969) is he work of George Romero, who may be a madman but is also an artist. Kooky scary, satirical, bloody as nell, Dawn has everything you could want from a...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Beast in All of Us | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

Nicaragua's agriculture, which employs a majority of the population, has been all but ruined. June is normally the month in which farmers plant cotton, the country's leading farm export, and spray the coffee crop, which ranks No. 2. This year farmers are afraid to go to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Somoza Stands Alone | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

The plot is raveled. It revolves around the U.S. Attorney General's office, which employs the Mafia to find a cool freelance hit man to abduct a Robert Vesco-like tycoon from his extradition-proof Caribbean hideaway and return him to face justice back home. This effort is complicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Banana Fields Forever | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

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