Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's a lot more to Mexico man Acapulco and the silver mines of Taxco," says Staff Writer Jack White. "More than Tijuana, tequila, tortillas and tacos," adds Bernard Diederich, who has been chief of TIME's bureau in Mexico City for more than a decade. Yet cornmeal cliches have often flavored American thinking about the neighbor across the Rio Grande. This week's cover story, written by White and reported by Diederich, assesses the social, political and historical landscape of a country described by Diederich as "big, beautiful and as complicated as any on earth...
...Naomh Padraig approached the Emerald Isle, the airliner was joined by an escort of jet fighters from the Irish air corps. Later, five air corps jets saluted the Pope by flying over Dublin's airport in a cross-shaped formation. President Patrick Hillery, Prime Minister Jack Lynch and senior Cabinet ministers were on hand to greet John Paul. In keeping with modern papal protocol, Prime Minister Lynch and his Catholic colleagues did not kiss the Pope's ring, but merely shook his hand and bowed...
Following the angriest Mexican-American confrontation since General John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing chased Pancho Villa south of the border in 1916, the two countries last week initialed an agreement for the sale of 300 million cu. ft. of gas daily at an initial price of $3.63 per 1,000 cu. ft. The gas involved amounts to less than 1% of total U.S. consumption and is far under the 2.2 billion-cu.-ft.-per-day deal envisaged in July 1977 when Pemex, the Mexican state oil company, signed a letter of intent with six American pipeline companies...
...cast accomplish the not inconsiderable feat of standing out against the colorful backdrops. Though Gere at times slips into self-conscious mannerisms, he makes his character, a mess sergeant from Arizona, an appealing innocent abroad. Devane is a charming commanding officer, despite his disconcerting tendency to sound like Jack Nicholson. Both Eichhorn (a gifted screen newcomer) and Redgrave show enough backbone to prevent their roles, a shopgirl and an aristocrat, from softening into hopeless cliches...
...since Fred Allen and Jack Benny went at each other on the radio has broadcasting seen such a feud. But whereas Allen and Benny were friends who fought for laughs, Johnny Carson and NBC President Fred Silverman are in earnest. The outcome of their battle will affect both men's careers and the immediate future of an ailing NBC. Last week they took their dispute to a Los Angeles judge, who must decide whether Carson has a valid contract with the network...