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...OCEAN (Columbia) A somewhat autobiographical look at Jack Nicholson's days as a lifeguard in the late 1950s, to be produced by Penny Marshall. But how will Jack fit into those swim trunks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Pipeline | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...traffic controller atop the building is needed to supervise the uniformed attendants who direct cars across the acres of asphalt. Befuddled visitors are greeted with information booths in the lobby. At Calvary Chapel in Santa Ana, Calif., converts are so numerous that they are baptized in the Pacific Ocean, dozens at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Superchurches And How They Grew | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...Force assembly lines. While the Soviet navy remains the lone holdout against perestroika by continuing a nuclear-carrier program, there are encouraging signs of change there too. The Severodvinsk shipyards have produced a tourist submarine, complete with large glass viewing portholes and devices for picking things up off the ocean floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Glasnost-Bottom Boat | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

Both Pinatubo and Unzen lie along the infamous Ring of Fire, a crescent of volcanic activity that runs around the rim of the Pacific Ocean through the edges of Asia, North America and South America. Washington's Mount St. Helens, which exploded spectacularly in 1980, is part of the ring. It contains three- quarters of the earth's 540 historically active volcanoes. Since such mountains are erupting in one place or another almost all the time, it is merely a coincidence that Pinatubo and Unzen are exploding simultaneously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes Them Blow | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

...appeared to be five separate aircraft that had crashed within 1 1/2 miles of each other on individual training missions. Still, Graham Hawkes, who headed the search, resisted the legend of the Triangle. "I don't know where Flight 19 is," he said. "But it's certainly in the ocean and not up with the aliens anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERMUDA TRIANGLE: It's Still the Lost Squadron: It's Still the Lost Squadron | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

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