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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The apparition that graced the skies over France last week looked rather like a giant exclamation point, which was entirely appropriate for the occasion. An enormous silvery balloon -eleven stories high-was sailing majestically through the air at 12 m.p.h., while in a red and yellow gondola below rode three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Whole World To See | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

The flight gave a lift to American spirits, providing an occasion for some pardonable national pride. The Albuquerque three had openly modeled their adventure after the famous airplane flight of Charles Lindbergh. Their craft was named the Double Eagle II, in honor of the Lone Eagle himself. They had wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Whole World To See | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

Every year a certain amount of happy frenzy attends the occasion, but the summer of '78 seems special. "I've never seen anything like it," says British Travel Agent Dennis Carver. "They're willing to go almost anywhere." As long as they go to the Med. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Heliomania on the Med | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

These are very lucky men, for Evita's London success far outstrips the show's merits. Though extravagantly staged by American Director Harold Prince, whom Stigwood imported for the occasion, Evita is a cold and uninvolving show that does little to expand the traditional musical comedy format or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Eva Peron, Superstar | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

Behavior inside these prisons was scandalous and unchecked. In the 1540s, while headmaster of Eton, Nicholas Udall was convicted of sodomy. He was later released from prison-and made headmaster of Westminster. Discipline was ferocious and sometimes fatal. An 18th century legal tract noted: "Where a schoolmaster, in correcting his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Schools for Scandal and Virtue | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

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