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...Borg is lean as a greyhound, his limbs long and supple, his shoulders almost incongruously broad. He practices at tournament speed four hours each day to keep in condition. No other player spends more time in workouts. Bergelin explains Borg's success with two gestures. First he slaps his thigh: "It's all here." Then he points to his head: "And here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tennis Machine | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

Life was simpler for the Lion of Judah. He did not have to sit in a little storefront near the Greyhound station and tempt young men and women into the military with fantasies of exotic travel and careers in computer maintenance. The Emperor had at least one advantage over the modern American recruiter, of course: a foreign invasion wonderfully concentrates the national mind. Absolute power over Columbia people also gave Selassie a certain edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: On Being Citizens and Soldiers | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

...that had been heading for Tampa to pick up a cargo of phosphate, smashed into a bridge abutment. A 1,300-ft. stretch of roadway trembled violently, then ripped away from the bridge. Steel and concrete crashed down, some of it landing on the freighter's bow. A Greyhound bus carrying 23 people plummeted 140 ft. into the water, along with three cars and a pickup truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What a Horrible Sight! | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

FORTY MILE per hour winds whip across the Ellipse, where Greyhound after Greyhound is disgorging Communist after Libertarian after Democratic Socialist after backpacked unaffiliate. Flags snap in the gusts--bright red banners for members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, who also carry posters bearing the face of Chairman Bob Avakian. They lockstep around the park, a march within a march. chanting "You Can Take This War and Shove It Up Your Ass, I'm Going to Fight for the Working Class." The wind spins the noise around in circles--without moving, you can hear the cries of the yellow-flag...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Revolution Number Ten | 4/3/1980 | See Source »

Chart Designer Nigel Holmes first surveyed the distinctive shapes of America through the window of a Greyhound bus. Having completed his M.A. in illustration at London's Royal College of Art in 1966, British-born Holmes was embarked on a 99-days-for-$99 visual tour of the U.S., during which he filled his sketch pads and memory with images of cars, drive-in movie theaters, billboard displays and fast-food emporiums. "I was tremendously influenced by what I saw and by new techniques used in American graphics," he says. "I decided, however, that I could never work here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 11, 1980 | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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