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...just spent $10 billion, finished a week-long countdown, flooded a million gallons of fuel into a hundred-thousand-pound bird, and launched the whole contraption into orbit," a beer-drinking cameraman bellowed in front of the press grandstand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NASA Officials Predict Shuttle Success | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...much time Hemingway was left alone with his writing. It was the one thing that he could not charm, intimidate, tame with fists, gun or gaff. Early comments on the subject jumble jazz-age slang with such gee whizzisms as "Gertrude Stein and me are just like brothers" and "Pound thinks I'm a swell poet." The mature craftsman finds that he has to write to be happy, that his art is his disease, his vice and obsession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Papa's Moveable Treats | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...roomy, comfortable -and low enough for the handicapped and elderly to board without difficulty. Flxible and General Motors came up with prototypes in 1973. With an eye toward saving fuel, the UMTA sent them back to the drawing board with an offer to pay $3 per bus for each pound they could remove from the vehicle's weight. In 1977 GM devised the RTS ill, a flashy bus with clean lines and an optional 1 wheelchair lift. Grumman, the company that built o the lunar landing module, bought Flxible and produced a low-slung, 26,000-lb., 48-seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Anyone Fx Those Flxibles? | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...from shards of bone. A woman's identity rises from the remains, and her murderer is traced. Here Smith wrings another change: his hero is an open-faced Soviet investigator, and his villain is a voracious capitalist, the American John Osborne, who deals in a unique commodity, sables. Pound for pound the animals are worth more than gold, but they are caged a world away from Western fur markets. Osborne intends to smuggle his live cargo across the border Hand breed them in the U.S. All 5 who interfere are terminated with 1 extreme prejudice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Moral, Exportable Sleuth | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

Just now, the sex star has another priority: breast-feeding an eight-pound girl named Alexandra, the first child of Lange and Mikhail Baryshnikov, artistic director of American Ballet Theater. When he heard the news two weeks ago, Baryshnikov, who was in Buffalo with A.B.T., flew back to Manhattan to see his daughter. "She's beautiful," says Lange, 31, of Alexandra, who was delivered by natural childbirth. "I was enormously proud that she came into the world naturally. But then my baby is bright and alert. She made it easy." Lange seemed almost as pleased to talk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Post Mark of Cain | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

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