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...implications of the Afghanistan and Iran incidents, the ten-term Congressman consistently decries American dependence on foreign oil. "We've been literally immobilized by the fear that our oil could be shut off," Anderson--who advocates increased research on solar power--told a suburban Boston audience last week. "A lean, taut budget," one that will require states and cities to "forego for a year or two" some federally funded programs, is Anderson's remedy for an economy stretched thin by inflation...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Anderson Looks for His Break | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

Everyone sees Eric. It is cool just to be in the same town with him. The people who don't have tickets for his events lean against the fence around the speed skating rink like refugees, shouting desperately every time he circles by. They love him madly; he is a hero. And it is clear that he loves them back. "Good luck, Eric," a random fan calls out as he whizzes by on a trial run, and Eric literally stops dead in his tracks and spins around and squints up at the crowd in the direction of the voice...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Man and Superman in Lake Placid | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...latest survey, taken in late January, that ranking was stunningly reversed. To find out what caused so many people to change their minds, TIME correspondents across the nation interviewed a sampling of the ex-Kennedy supporters who had been polled by Yankelovich. Most of them now lean toward Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: He Wasn't in Touch | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...exhibitionist will, speed skating seems tame to Americans, an exercise grindingly precise, an icy, athletic watchmaking. Only in recent weeks have Eric and Beth Heiden, the brother-and-sister speed skaters from Madison, Wis., begun to educate Americans about the beauties of their sport: the swoopingly powerful grace, the lean, economical rhythms of a skater swinging over very fast, gray-blue ice, bright, silver shavings leaping minutely in the sun with every snick of the skate blade. In Norway and The Netherlands, citadels of the sport, Eric is an athletic hero. As the Olympics approached, he acquired celebrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Only the Lake Was Placid | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...Lean and vigorous, Fahrner has taken a mountainside and turned it into a ski racer's snow sculpture. With swarming Caterpillars and snow packers, he has added bumps and rolling terrain to the course, piling up snow here, scraping some away there, molding an ideal racing network. "The skiers will see some things that are quite different than when we had the World Cup races here last year," he says. "The courses are much tougher, much more technical and difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: With Homemade Snow and Dreams of the Past | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

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