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...ambience just doesn't come across. TV's idea of conveying the atmosphere, the jumble, the ebb-and-flow relaxed panic that permeates the Open (and its home since last year, the National Tennis Center in Queens, N.Y.) and distinguishes it from some taped pseudo-spectacular from the Rio Spectaculo Beach Resort, is a quick pan from the Goodyear blimp, or a quick aside from Tony Trabert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open Season | 9/18/1979 | See Source »

...Everybody was unhappy. It was only a matter of coordination." From his fortified villa in the mainland province of Rio Muni, where he had lived in seclusion for the past two years, Macias put up a brief fight, then fled into the jungle. But first, he burned a huge pile of banknotes: some $105 million in Guinean and foreign currency, or just about all the cash in the country, which he had gathered up before he retired to the villa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Despot's Fall | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

Spencer Davidson's account of the flying chicken spree at Rio Grande, Ohio, is the laughingest story to appear in your pages in all of the 52 years I've been reading TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 30, 1979 | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...Moonraker to take us to locations heretofore untouched by his vacation-spot-hungry camera crews, and if the final scene is any indication of the length of Broccoli's list of locations, then it's just about used up. While searching for the missing shuttle, Bond visits California, Venice, Rio, a lush but foe-infested South American river, and finally, several hundred miles up in Earth orbit...

Author: By Joshua I. Goldhaber, | Title: Space Shots | 7/10/1979 | See Source »

Flights are interrupted from time to time for fowl play. Children are invited to scratch for nickels in two sawdust piles. The winner is Dan Deaver of Gallipolis, a beaver-toothed boy who has been "nine for a week now." He finds 27 nickels. Blond Kathy Markwood, 8, of Rio Grande is top girl with 15. They receive a silver dollar and the honor of being photographed with Evans. A human in white chicken suit demands entry. A lengthy rule-book search discloses no weight limit to keep him out but he is disqualified be cause he cannot fit through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: A Fowl Spectacle | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

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