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No challenger had ever won more than two races, but that is merely a statistic. What was on display in Newport was nobility. The Australians showed technological brilliance, consummate sailing skill, luck, intuition, nerve, courage, stamina and fanatic determination to win. It also took millions of dollars on both sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Best Cup Challenge Ever | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

Although they were officially prohibited from flying more than four hours a day, pilots often were at the controls for eight. Mason says that he once flew 20 out of 24 hours. Fatigue fogged the senses, and the view of combat through the Plexiglas became hallucinatory. He thought about bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Levitation | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

Who are these women, that the horizon of their hopes is so low? And why do they stay with their roughhouse Romeos? Because the alternative is a new man just as bad as the last one, or, worse, no man at all. They give everything to their men and expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Germany Without Tears | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

In Texas, drive-ins are not only surviving but thriving. One of the most popular features in the Dallas Times Herald is "Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In," a tongue-in-cheek guide to what is playing under the stars. Writing from the redneck's point of view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Dark Clouds over the Drive-ins | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

Einstein spent the last years of his life trying to show that the gravitational and electromagnetic forces were different aspects of the same phenomenon. Although he failed in his attempt at unification, theoretical physicists have now begun to glimpse an underlying oneness in the four basic forces. With their customary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bigger Mini-Bangs for the Buck | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

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