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...Arkansas, the questions being raised about the Titan accident were much more parochial and intense. Cleburne County Judge Dan Verser asked at a hearing at Little Rock Air Force Base whether he should worry when warning lights flash and sirens howl at a Titan silo near his farm in Heber Springs, 25 miles east of Damascus. Colonel John Moser, commander of the 308th Strategic Missile Wing at Little Rock, replied that "99 times out of 100" the warnings are caused by equipment failure and "there is no need to evacuate until you're told to evacuate." Moser was quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Geriatric Giants | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...next winter is better, at first. Though the winds howl and the thermometer dips to 50° below, the house is finished enough to stay fairly snug; it only catches fire twice. Between these moments of excitement, there is bread to be baked, books to be read, a crackling blaze in the fireplace to be contemplated. A dream of the counterculture seems about to come true, until cabin fever strikes. Suddenly, plates full of moose meat are being hurled about, hair is being pulled; Bob punches Elizabeth in the stomach. She writes: "I was free to hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winter Kills | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

Cheech and Chong have stuck with a successful shtick for years. People, they have discovered, find it a little thrilling to see illicit drugs on the big screen, thrilling enough that they will howl and yell and carry on at the sight of the drug. And so the pair, aging Chicano drifters, draw laughs with an elaborate series of sight gags and one-liners, all connected to dope...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Smoked | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

Saudi Arabian displeasure over a British-American television production, Death of a Princess, continued to stir up diplomatic storms last week. The "dramatized documentary," which re-enacts the execution of a Saudi princess and her lover in 1977 for adultery, had already aroused a howl of Saudi protest three weeks ago when it was first shown over Britain's independent television network. But when the government-controlled British Broadcasting Corporation showed another documentary on Saudi Arabia that, like the Princess film, was highly uncomplimentary to Saudi royal life, Riyadh's wrath boiled over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Film Fallout | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

...Cramps remind us once and for all where and how it all began. Not even the merest whiff of British influence finds its way onto this album. Good riddance. Maybe once the Cramps get through destroying rock's conventions from the ground up we'll really have something to howl about...

Author: By Scott J. Michaelsen, | Title: The True Trash Aesthetic | 4/26/1980 | See Source »

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