Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Olympia, Wash., who set a record for playing the violin under water, Japan has come up with an entire underwater orchestra, a first. To raise funds for a local charity, a man and a woman in Des Moines lovingly sat in tubs of vanilla pudding for 24 hr. 34 min. 20 sec., the only record ever set for a pudding sit- but one that will no doubt be challenged...
After a 45-min. cocktail reception, he spoke for an hour at the dinner to 400 people, two-thirds of them black. His speech was urgent but hardly incendiary. Said he: "The economy is in trouble, democracy is in trouble and we seem lost at sea without a leader." After the speech, Jordan lingered for a couple of hours with about 100 Urban League members in the Piper's Glen Room at the motel. He smoked a cigar, nibbled on hors d'oeuvres and talked with well-wishers about the civil rights struggles of the past...
...final game the Islanders almost undid it again. They surged ahead 4-2, then let the Flyers catch up. But 7 min. 11 sec. into sudden death, John Tonelli took a pass from Lome Henning and snapped it to Bobby Nystrom, who backhanded the puck into Philadelphia's net. Said Nystrom: "I think that was the first backhand shot I ever scored on in my life...
Photographer Roger Werth, who took the spectacular photographs on this week's cover, hastened to the Kelso, Wash., airport and was in the air 20 min. after the mountain blew its top, aiming his camera through a tiny window next to him as the pilot dipped and tilted for better shots. Said Werth: "At first we couldn't see a thing, but the air cleared for several minutes and then there was the mountain and the huge plume heading up into the sky." Photographer John Barr was riding a National Guard helicopter during an air search, when...
After his 1-hr. 15-min. tour, Carter excitedly told reporters: "The moon looks like a golf course compared to what's up there." At a meeting with townspeople in Vancouver, the President was being briefed by experts on the economic damage of the eruption when Governor Ray interrupted. "This is all very interesting," she said, "but the top priority is people." Replied Carter: "What do you need specifically?" Ray spelled out her answer: "M-O-N-E-Y." In fact, before leaving Washington, D.C., Carter had declared the mountain's vicinity a federal disaster area, making residents...