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...extends much farther than the eye can see: a great tapestry pf shimmering blue lakes and islands forested with silver birch, black spruce and majestic red pines. Eagles and ospreys wheel overhead, while moose and wolves roam the woods as they did in the days of the 17th century voyageurs. Crystal-clear lakes teem with enough trout and walleyed pike to make even the fishing novice feel like the compleat angler. At dusk the call of the loon is heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Storm over Voyageurs' Country | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...million, it will pay for itself in short order: $6.5 million was donated to U.S.T.A. coffers by CBS in exchange for rights to televise the tournament for three years. Flushing Meadow is glass and concrete modern, not Forest Hills grass and Tudor. Jets from nearby La Guardia Airport roar overhead. And that most crucial modern convenience - enough restroom space for thousands of tennis fans-is in ample supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Home for a Troubled Game | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...named Lana was tutored to communicate with her keepers in a language called Yerkish-a system of geometric symbols (squares, circles, lines, etc.) that stand for English words. By punching out these symbols, or lexigrams, as they are called, on a computer-monitored console, which displayed them on an overhead screen, Lana became skilled enough in Yerkish to say things like "Please machine give Lana juice." But not until now have such human-designed symbols been used by one chimp to "converse" with another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chimp to Chimp | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...Rosalita, his classic rocker about a street dude come acourting, the suitor presses his advantage by announcing that "the record company just gave me a big advance." Springsteen often sings it that way. But sometimes, he will throw his head back into the full glare of an overhead spot, grin with pride on one side of his wide smile and irony on the other, and shout out: "Your Papa says he knows that I don't have any money/ This is his last chance/ Tell him, Rosie, I ain't no freak/ 'Cause I got my picture/ On the cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cruising Through the Darkness | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...Graham's accounting, a very respectable 89% of the budget goes for far-flung evangelism programs and only 11% for administrative overhead and fund-raising costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Billy's Bucks | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

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