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...recent roar of jet airplanes over Cambridge is due to icy Canadian gusts that are forcing air traffic controllers at Logan airport to divert the take-off pattern of these planes, an administrator at Massport said yesterday...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Cold Weather and Winds Send Planes Over College | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

...black-Hispanic acting troupe, and its debut production is Julius Caesar. In the U.S. the problem of proper delivery of the Shakespearean line transcends ethnic background or race. Few, if any, American actors are qualified to speak in iambic pentameter. Lacking sufficient breath control, they pant when they should roar, and jangle the music and authority of poetic rhetoric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Arc of Anguish | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...just 8:30 a.m., but the room is already throbbing with the ardent and unabashed pursuit of money. As the pace picks up, the shouts of jostling men rise like the roar of the crowd at Churchill Downs when it's neck and neck in the home stretch of the Kentucky Derby. The participants are dressed like stockroom clerks in brightly colored cloth jackets, and they are flashing elaborate hand signals to each other and yelling phrases in a jargon all their own. "Even 17 D's!" cries one exasperated figure as he elbows for room. Another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago: A Frenzied Bastion of Capitalism | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...smoke that stains everything it touches bright crimson. A few bankers' groups offer rewards for tips leading to the arrest and indictment of robbers. The Washington Bankers Association has a payoff program that helped indict eight thieves in its first year. It is known by the acronym ROAR, which stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stickup Surge | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

When the deafening roar subsided, and the Gallery Gods stopped chanting, "Bob-bie! Bob-bie!" he told the crowd he loved them and Boston, and always would. But the most poignant moment came when The Chief, Johnny Bucyk, presented the eight-time Norris Trophy winner with the uniform he wore in his 1966-67 rookie season...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Orr: Ending at the Beginning | 1/12/1979 | See Source »

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