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Clippers, which were called the "greyhounds of the sea," were the fastest ships of their day. The Sea Squall set a record by sailing from New York to Rio de Janeiro in 28 days...
...enthusiasm among the members of TIME's headquarters team was confirmed by reports from Washington Correspondent Dick Thompson, who covered a NASA meeting on 1987A at the Goddard Space Flight Center, and Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who flew to northern Chile, where astrophysicists first sighted 1987A. Chicago Correspondent Madeleine Nash, who specializes in science, canvassed supernova experts from Cambridge, Mass., to Santa Cruz, Calif. Says Nash: "I had heard of supernovas, of course, but was only dimly aware of their importance." After a few interviews, she became an aficionado. "The energy released by a supernova makes Mount...
...operation was a consummate inside job. Some baggage handlers at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport plucked suitcases loaded with cocaine off incoming planes from Rio de Janeiro and switched them onto conveyor belts headed for domestic flights before the luggage ever got to Customs inspectors. Others simply picked up the bags and carried them out through emergency exits. Accomplices erased from airline computer systems all records of the flights made by the couriers who carried the drugs from Brazil. Since 1981, the ring may have smuggled $1.5 billion worth of cocaine through J.F.K. Last Tuesday narcotics agents...
...almost from the moment he arrived at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1908, reports Horowitz, Toscanini was a celebrity. The story of his professional debut -- rising from the cello section to lead Verdi's Aida from memory in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 19 -- had preceded him, and the New York music critics provided a collective embrace. "As great and as welcome as anything that has come out of Italy since Verdi laid down his pen," proclaimed the New York Tribune in a typical response...
...James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: Dean Brelis Peking: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: William Stewart, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Peter Stoler Caribbean: Bernard Diederich Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Managua: Laura Lopez Rio de Janeiro: Gavin Scott