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...NASA engineers studied a plan to send a McDonnell Douglas F-15, America's hottest jet fighter, into a computer-guided supersonic climb to about 80,000 feet and then blast Skylab out of the sky with a non-nuclear rocket. This idea was dropped when the scientists concluded that Skylab would merely be blown into more pieces scattered over a wider area, increasing rather than reducing the danger of damage on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skylab's Fiery Fall | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...sold 18,775 by mid-June in 1978. For the same period this year, fewer than 3,000 Cougars have been bought-only 35 of them during the middle ten days of June. At Chrysler, sales of Dodge Aspens are down 30% for the year. The company's hottest autos are the subcompact Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon (up 55%). Yet production of these models is limited because their engines are supplied by Volkswagen, and the number is fixed at 300,000 for the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: At Car Dealers Small Is All | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Despite those vehement denials, the story that West Germany's largest auto firm was aiming to take over the U.S.'s deeply troubled No. 3 automaker immediately became the hottest non-news of the week. Even though the report was scoffed at by both parties concerned, the rapidity with which it ricocheted through Detroit and Wall Street testified to the atmosphere of anxiety that surrounds Chrysler, which is expected to lose at least $285 million, and possibly more, this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Raciest Rumor | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...exasperating game. There was a one-hour wait for the umpires' arrival at Soldiers Field, one inning umped by a guy in street clothes, 25 hits, eight errors, two wild pitches and a balk (in the same inning), a pair of intentional walks to get to Harvard's hottest hitter, and a game-saving relief stint by Harvard's number two starting pitcher...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Nine Stops Tufts, 9-7 | 4/25/1979 | See Source »

...that she just did not like two steps basic to the dance vocabulary, the entrechat and the pas de basque. So she had them excised, which was akin to taking the verb out of sentences. Now the ballet classes are filled again, and a classical ballet performance is the hottest ticket in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: On a Wing and a Scissors | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

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