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Crack, crack, crack! The chutes snap open, blossoming in the sky like popcorn. They are a far cry from the old rounded canopies of World War II. Brightly colored, they are designed to allow the jumpers to maneuver on the way to earth. They float downward for two, maybe 2...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Catch a Falling Snowflake | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

Iacocca says that he would like to see his new employer develop a "sports car," suggesting that something like the Mustang, which made Iacocca's reputation as a marketing whiz at Ford, may be in Chrysler's future. Iacocca is also expected to inject some new pep into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chrysler Gets Some Firepower | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

Some believe that an outsider will be eaten alive by the Vatican bureaucracy. But those who have observed Wojtyla's career know that he is no pushover. He knows the art of byzantine maneuver and long-range tactics, having learned it in confrontation with a Communist bureaucracy at least as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Foreign Pope | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

The two took off at 8:15 a.m., warmed by the bright sun. Hazy visibility was a welcome ten miles. As the plane headed for Lindbergh Field, Instructor Kazy sat in the right front seat of the four-seater, Boswell in the left. They received permission from the Lindbergh tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death over San Diego | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

Even one Communist-educated intellectual allied to the regime pleads that his country is "not an apple" ready to fall to the Russians, and privately appeals to the U.S. to act like "a great power." But U.S. room for maneuver is as limited as the Afghans'. Conservative Muslim tribesmen in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Ripe Apple in the Hindu Kush | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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