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Congress has appropriated $35.8 million to improve security at U.S. embassies, chiefly in the Middle East and Central America. The money is being spent on advanced communications systems that will allow most secret data to be stored in Washington, yet still be almost instantly available to embassy officials when needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning to Keep a Secret | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

Diamond is unique among pop stars in that he projects not a scintilla of sexual danger; but here he is required only to be a dutiful son, husband (twice), father and pop idol. With the help of Lucie Arnaz as Neil's girlfriend, and Laurence Olivier (who really must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cantor's Cant | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

So it goes when Carl Sagan, creator, chief writer and host-narrator of the new public television series Cosmos takes the controls of his fantasy spaceship. Sagan's grandfather can rest easy now. His grandson is not only making a living, thank you, he has also become a star?indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Cosmic Explainer | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

Boston Publicist C. Paul Luongo likes to describe himself as a "person of infinite taste." Leaving aside whether such a claim itself shows infinite taste, Luongo set out six years ago to prove it by tracking down the best goods and services offered in the U.S. The entries in his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: America's Best | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

When Albuquerque Businessman Maxie Anderson, 45, and his son Kris, 23, completed the first nonstop transcontinental balloon flight in May, the four-day voyage of 2,818 miles from Fort Baker, Calif., to Ste. Félicité, Quebec, set a world record for overland flight. Another, more esoteric record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Human Need to Break Records | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

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