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Marty hummed "Folsom Prison Blues." He toyed with the lights and switches and slung a thumb-size wad into his mouth. "I love doin' this the most," he said, firmly yanking the wheel toward his gut. The jet bucked to a 60-degree angle, pressing me into my seat. "Thirty degrees more and we'll be a rocket-ship, boy," he said, spittle running down through his grin and back across his bulbous cheek...

Author: By Jim Tyson, | Title: Chariots of the Gods | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

...drove it to the edge--toward a blue bowl with silver specks)) a cow hand in the Drby whipping a thoroughbred to the line. Sophisticaiton could not repel spirit. Yang rammed a screaming yin across the night sky. He brought into his gut the paragon of rationality and the pride of corporate innovation and technology and regergitated it all over the heavans with an ass slappin' yell. Western, righteous stuff was taking it eastward home to its staid, straight beginnings, sp.tting and yawping...

Author: By Jim Tyson, | Title: Chariots of the Gods | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

...with NBC News President William Small. Late that night Jean Rather finally turned to him in their living room. "You were going to make a decision today," she said evenly. "You have 17 minutes left." At long last Rather was ready: "I am going to go with my gut. I'm going to go with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Face of TV News | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...illegally or unethically enticed the lawmakers into committing crimes they would normally not have considered? "This smacks of a setup," claimed one leading Democrat in Congress. "A lot of guys feel that the FBI has got it in for this place." But why? No legislator could quite explain this "gut feeling" that, as another Congressman contended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI Stings Congress | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

There is a gut feeling in many Americans-and many Senators-that now is not a time for the U.S. to be making deals with the Soviets. Now is a tune not for disarmament, but for rearmament. There is in this feeling a new manifestation of an old fallacy, the fallacy that SALT does the U.S.S.R. more good than the U.S., and that scuttling SALT will therefore do the Soviets more harm. As Henry Kissinger often said, SALT is not a reward for Soviet good behavior; treaties between adversaries can be more useful than treaties between friends; especially in periods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What Happens if SALT Dies | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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