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Carter rode the rails for all they were worth. Her voice drove effortlessly over octave jumps and lightning arpeggios, dropping into racing scat syllables that taxed its entire range and timbre. She finally chugged home on a slow, low, unresolved chord, leaving the song unfinished until the cheers silenced it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Silver Newport | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

Weather. Much of it has ranged from bad to impossible. Denver's Stapleton airport was closed intermittently for days because of thunderstorms. The Northern states have been besieged by a succession of lightning-filled fronts, which have delayed flights for hours.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Flying the Snarled-Up Skies | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

> Glen Young, a farmer in Ravenna, Ohio, after a prolonged hassle, got Western Reserve Mutual to pay $2,100 for his pickup truck, which ran into a ditch and was totally wrecked last October. A few days later, says Young, "I was told that my coverage would be terminated in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Infuriating Insurance Claims | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

In South Africa, there is criticism of U.S. policy from some who might be most expected to support it. "Even those who once sympathized with Washington's concern over black conditions and rights are dismayed," reports TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter. "Many young blacks in South Africa, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: U.S. Policy Under Attack | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

That assurance was scarcely comforting to Sadat, who knew that Cyprus had long been a haven for Palestinian terrorists. Fearing that the killers might be freed, Sadat alerted the Egyptian army's crack Saiqa (Lightning) commando team and ordered it sent to Larnaca. Cairo merely informed Kyprianou that "we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISTS: Murder and Massacre on Cyprus | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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