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...controllers' strike causing flight delays and cancellations at airports across the country, TIME correspondents assigned to the story found being in the right place at the right time more crucial than ever. Shortly after the strike was announced, Correspondent Madeleine Nash was at Chicago's O'Hare Airport to assess the situation with passengers and air-traffic supervisors who remained at work. On the day of the strikers' return-to-work deadline, Boston Correspondent John Yang drove to Hollis, N.H., where he witnessed a rally by two local chapters of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization...
...Piper Aircraft Corp. and an experienced test pilot?insisted that the system was as safe as ever. Noting that traffic was down at the nation's airports, some airline pilots contended that this actually made flying less hazardous than before the strike. At busy airports, like Chicago's O'Hare International, aircraft were required to stay 20 miles behind another plane approaching a landing, rather than the usual five miles; planes taking off had to wait five minutes instead of the normal one minute or less before rolling down the runway after another had left...
...nominate Senator Denton's hare-brained scheme to appropriate $30 million for a program to promote teen-age chastity for Senator Proxmire's "Golden Fleece" award...
...former President's bunny tale. Fishing alone in 1979 in a small watership down in Plains, Ga., Jimmy was alarmed to see "a fairly robust-looking rabbit" hissing menacingly, with teeth flashing and nostrils flared, paddling furiously toward his skiff. When the furry creature got to within a hare's breadth of the craft, Carter took oar in hand and began flailing frantically to chase it away-or maybe even to split a hare. Aides scoffed when Jimmy first regaled them with his rabbit feat, until they learned that a White House photographer had recorded the incident...
...career in 1973 in New York. Now, besides speaking for her volunteer organization, Hineni, she leads consciousness-raising classes, is finishing a book, writes pamphlets (e.g., Meaningful Sex-A Jewish View) and answers 600 to 700 letters a month. Occasionally Jungreis will boldly park her "heritage" van outside a Hare Krishna or Divine Light Mission outpost and with a loudspeaker try to coax young Jewish converts into leaving...