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...weeks Rhoda Morgenstern became TV's favorite wisecracking overweight spinster, and Valerie Harper emerged as a winningly wacky comic actress. Before the season ended, she won the first of her three Emmy awards, for a show in which Mary fixed up a date for her with an old flame-who showed up with his wife. Said Rhoda: "I'd like to introduce you to my date, Mr. and Mrs. Armand Linton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Victorious Loser | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

Small wonder then that Matucci feels badly used by his superiors. His most entertaining manipulator is the Salamander himself-an old, immensely rich fairy Godfather. Like the legendary salamander who lives in flame, he has survived the fires of illegitimacy and Mussolini's Fascism with his lizard's skin unscathed. The Salamander does for West's story what the wolf does for the tale of Red Riding Hood. As a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, The Salamander will be widely sold, but it reads like a mere shadow between West's conception and the inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Leapin' Lizard | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...causing everyone so much inconvenience." When the last passenger had left the plane, the skyjackers set fire to it. Reports TIME'S Joseph Fitchett, who was on the scene: "Passengers were barely clear before a wisp of black smoke curled out of the cockpit. A tongue of flame followed, then crept back along the top of the fuselage. The plane began to collapse with a series of small reports. Finally, the tail section keeled down, and half an hour after touchdown, three big explosions, like distant summer thunder, sent up a mushroom pall of black smoke as debris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Flight to Nowhere | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...each other in giving aid. "I feel happiest when I can light my American cigarette with a Russian match," he once joked. But Moscow's nearly $1.5 billion in military and economic aid over the past 20 years far outdistanced Washington's $500 million, and inevitably the flame of the match grew a little warmer than the glow of the cigarette. The Soviet Union and India became the first countries to recognize the new government last week. In Washington, the State Department said that it had recognition under consideration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Coup at the Crossroads | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

Then it was Koslov's turn. After a slow flight over the runway, the TU-144 started an even more awesome zoom climb, afterburners streaking yellow flame and turbofans thundering. "My God," said U.S. Test Pilot Bob Hoover, "I don't see how he can do it!" At 3,000 ft., Koslov began flattening his climb. The plane's needle nose pointed downward, then the craft went into an arrowhead plunge as the pilot struggled to regain control. The stress was too great. At 2,000 ft., the left wing ripped off first, followed by the tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Deadly Exhibition | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

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