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...about the worst. Another list, more hopeful, includes "areas for reaching out," such as sex, work, relatives. Again the husbands and wives write their comments. Through the day, reticence gradually recedes, and by nightfall the couples are primed for a presentation on Christ's presence at the wedding feast at Cana (John 2). Then, in a room dimly lit by a few lamps and candles, the priest asks the couples to share their feelings and tell what they are experiencing. A young teacher speaks up: "Tonight, for the first time since we were married seven years ago, I told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Nuptial Notebooks | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

Still, none of the U.S. automakers are more vulnerable to zigs and zags in the market than Chrysler. With sales of nearly $11 billion, it is one of the very biggest U.S. manufacturers (it was No. 4 on the FORTUNE 500 list for 1973). Yet it has had a feast-or-famine existence ever since World War II, and the fundamental reason is its small size compared with GM and Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Another Chrysler Crisis | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

...hands to the roof of a Volkswagen while, in his words, "screaming for me, the engine was run at full speed for two minutes." He has strewn broken glass on a street in Los Angeles and crawled naked through it; at the Basel Art Fair last year (a feast day, on which many priests and their temple dancers gather to exchange the images peculiar to their cult), he had himself kicked down two flights of concrete stairs in front of an admiring throng. He has been shot, though only by a .22 in the arm, by an assistant. All these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Portrait of the Autist As a Young Man | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...final frenzied flapping, they settle into their roosting spot-30 acres of pine trees in the midst of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division base at Fort Campbell. At dawn the birds (mostly starlings and a scattering of grackles, cowbirds and red-winged blackbirds) take off to feast at local farms and feed lots. Again the sky darkens; again the air is filled with raucous cries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The War on the Blackbirds | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...temperature dropped to a numbing 13° below zero that night, and on Sunday the course was frozen solid. Attla, who had turned in the best time during Saturday's first heat, prepared his team for the final day with a feast of cottage cheese, honey and rice. As spectators clutching flasks of brandy scrambled on foot or into pickups to find vantage points out on the course, Starter Frank Salerno began dispatching the 141 teams at 1-and 2-min. intervals. When Attla's turn came, he catapulted from the starting line and assaulted Suicide Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dog Days in Winter | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

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