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...flight from Paris to Rio de Janeiro; a British Airways craft flew from London to Bahrain. Aboard the Rio flight was Chris English, a TIME Washington Bureau copy clerk whose hobby is flying commercial airliners (since 1969 he has logged 412,000 air miles). TIME London Bureau Chief Herman Nickel flew to Bahrain. Their accounts follow, along with their ratings of their flights on factors other than speed (four airplanes was the highest possible...
...tender-offer price with book value and reject it. But some Wall Streeters speculate that takeover attempts may soon be made against companies controlled by institutions that are getting tired of holding undervalued shares. Says William Chatlos, a partner in Georgeson & Co., a proxy solicitor: "For an extra nickel on the price, some of the institutions would sell out their grandmothers...
...train now, in the shadow of a mammoth factory; next on a darkened street outside a warehouse at a coffee counter. Third refill costs a nickel. He wanders into a warehouse, following a noise. Through dark passageways of pipes and crate to an open space. It is a street fight, two sleek men clutching bills and taking bets, two bare-chested bruisers facing each other, brown ill-fitting suits and anxious Depression faces crowded around the bare floor that serves as a ring. The bets are in, the bruisers battle: it's no holds barred-kicking, hair-pulling, and annihilating...
...Taser, powered by six rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries, fires two barbs attached to 18 feet of fine wire. When the barbs hit a human, a current that can build up to a three-watt, 50,000-volt charge leaps through the closed circuit. The shock instantly disrupts the victim's nervous system, his eyes close, and he slumps to the floor jerking spasmodically. When the current is turned off, muscular control returns immediately, but a mild state of shock persists...
...this situation develop? Observes TIME London Bureau Chief Herman Nickel: In the three decades since the war, probably no Western European country has placed a higher priority on achieving equality than Britain. This was a direct response to the unifying experience of World War II, when it seemed that the deep scars left by the Industrial Revolution had finally been healed. The Tories saw equality mainly in terms of equal opportunity. Labor felt that it could not be achieved without extensive redistribution of wealth. But the lofty policy of equality through taxation and redistribution degenerated into the petty politics...