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...Silicon Valley, they will tour the Hewlett-Packard plant and watch white-suited workers make micro chips. In San Diego, while the Queen peruses the Old Globe Theater, Philip will talk to the animals at the city's famed zoo. In order to ensure that the caged beasts growl for the Prince, their lunch that day will be postponed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Royal Road Show Begins | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...Orleans summer night. It grew stronger as I crossed Royal Street and saw the two battered music cases hanging over a wrought-iron gate. Brass letters on them spelled out the words PRESERVATION HALL. I heard a bass drum, a sprinkle of piano notes and the growl of a trumpet driving home a blues chorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Orleans: A Jazz Odyssey | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

...cars. Chrysler's warranty, which is good for five years or 50,000 miles, helped boost sales 4.8%. To promote these gimmicks, the companies launched costly advertising campaigns. It became almost impossible to watch television without hearing Telly (Kojak) Savalas hawk Fords or Chrysler's Iacocca growl: "If you can find a better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Glimmer off Hope in Detroit | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

With golden medals glimmering on the breast of his dark suit, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev slowly made his way though the lilacs and carnations to the podium. "Glory! Glory!" chanted 6,000 exultant members of the Young Communist League as their ailing leader, in his deep and slurred growl, began to speak. But a dramatic hush descended over the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses when Brezhnev reached the heart of his 35-minute address. The Komsomol delegates knew, as did Washington and the rest of the world, that the Soviet leader was planning to answer Ronald Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Limited Nuclear Response | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...other Thai Border Patrol Police suddenly received orders for a maneuver in the north. Armed with assault rifles, grenades, recoilless rifles and rocket launchers, the men clambered aboard trucks and rode all night through the newly harvested rice fields of central Thailand. Finally the trucks began to growl up the narrow roads that climb to the Golden Triangle, the opium-rich territory where the borders of Thailand, Burma and Laos converge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: The Great Opium War | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

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