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...crew members ran for the lifeboats, the flames ignited the cargo, which had begun to spill into the sea. For most of the day, the tanker burned, sending thick coils of black smoke rolling hundreds of feet into the air and bathing the area in an eerie orangish glow. Strong westerly winds blew a 75-mile-long cloud of choking smog toward shore, depositing thick black goo on houses and cars and coating newly shorn sheep with an oily film. Up to 25 miles inland, farmers reported an "oily rain" falling on their crops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: The Day the Ocean Caught Fire | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...first annual President Calvin Coolidge Week is now a warm glow both in Northampton, Mass., where Coolidge lived before and after his presidency, and in the White House, whose current occupant is his most powerful admirer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Old Cal Makes a Comeback | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...casual and a little cool, a little anonymous and a touch technocratic, then it must be New Music and Let's Dance. Talking about the album, Bowie can sound almost evangelistic, like Billy Graham on a crusade. He speaks of "positive music, something that has an inward glow to it, something that still has something to say but is more than the general kind of nihilistic thing I and some of my peers have been associated with." Instead, he aims to "swim against the tide of lethargy and nihilism"?this from the same man who swam upstream in those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Bowie Rockets Onward | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

...judgment on those victims of racism who are driven to violence as the only way left to them to redress grievances." The money is intended for welfare, not arms, but churches do not monitor how it is spent. It is this willingness to bunk potential excess in the sunny glow of the social gospel that has caused so much trouble for the W.C.C., and now the N.C.C. Such bunks disturb Christians who view Marxism as the world's gravest long-term threat to human rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Warring over Where Donations Go | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...which he had doused with lighter fluid. The match went out. He touched another match to his leg. That too went out. He stumbled a few steps toward the lighter fluid, splashed more on, returned to the camera, squatted and touched another match to his left thigh. A tiny glow appeared, then spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: When News Is Almost a Crime | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

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