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...watched a small TV set installed in their cars. Some chatted with other motorists or bought food and drink from enterprising kids working the lines. But growing anger and frustration all too often erupted in name calling, fistfights, occasional stabbings and shootings. While a gas-station owner in Freemansburg, Pa., rushed to help his bleeding wife, who had been accidentally struck by a car waiting in line, other motorists filled up their tanks and drove off without paying. In Levittown, Pa., in an outbreak originally caused by truckers demonstrating against high diesel fuel prices, some 2,000 motorists and thrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: And the Gas Lines Grow | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...catechism texts, prayer books and church documents. The Pax Movement has its own daily newspaper, but the hierarchy is not able to publish periodicals. The independent Catholic press is led by the respected Tygodnik Powszechny (General Weekly), produced by John Paul's friend Lay Editor Jerzy Turowicz. The pa per is artificially limited to eight pages an issue and a circulation of 40,000. Editor Turowicz routinely prepares twice as much copy as he needs because censors are unpredictable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Joyous Welcome for a Native Son | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...Malloy Bethel Park, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 21, 1979 | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...concrete evidence of such a process was the unexpected approval by the House Interior Committee of a six-month moratorium on all new nuclear plant construction or licensing. Chairman Morris Udall had urged postponement of the vote until after a full investigation of the accident at Three Mile Island, Pa. But he found conservative Republicans joining liberal Democrats to pass the measure, and the full House is expected to pass it as well. Said Udall afterward: "The potential is there for making nuclear power the centerpiece of politics in 1980. It has an intensity of its own." Representative Edward Markey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hell No, We Won't Glow | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

University Park, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 14, 1979 | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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