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"This puts transatlantic air travel in the pocket of the workingman," proclaimed Freddie Laker, the scrappy founder of Britain's Laker Airways, when in 1971 he first proposed Skytrain "shuttle" flights between New York and London at rock-bottom prices. Six years of governmental turbulence have held up the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: London for only $236 | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

Cross of Iron is Sam Peckinpah's venture into one of the movies' thriving subindustries: the big-budget, international-cast package tour of World War II. The itinerary is a bit unusual-the Eastern Front in 1943, where the German defenses are crumbling before a Russian onslaught. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Package Tour | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

Ready and willing to parade his down-home political style abroad, Carter launched his summit schedule with a trip to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, George Washington's ancestral home in northeastern England. TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud accompanied the President on his excursion into the British byways. Cloud's report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Just Wee Geordie for a Day | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

Low Hopes. Homework aside, Carter ran the risk of irritating his fellow heads of state when he granted interviews to a flock of European publications-all to be released just before he arrives in London. Earlier he had informed Prime Minister Callaghan that he would like to make an excursion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Summit at Downing Street | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

Erica Jong writes not so much novels as almost breathlessly up-to-date confessional bulletins. When last seen in Fear of Flying, Jong (who calls herself Isadora Wing on paper) was soaping up in her psychiatrist-husband's bathtub, waiting rather ambiguously for him to return and forgive her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oral History | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

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