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There, adopting the alias Barry Freed, he helped organize the Save the River Committee, which stopped the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from destroying several nearby islands to improve navigation. Freed gave frequent newspaper interviews, addressed Rotary Clubs, and even posed for photographs with New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Yippie Comes In from the Damp | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

Meanwhile, like electrons to a cathode, a raft of smaller companies and entrepreneurs are being attracted to the EV market. Sir Jon Samuel, a transplanted Briton, has set up Electric Auto Corp. in Troy, Mich., to produce the Silver Volt, scheduled for production next year at a cost to buyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Volts Wagon Does It, Again | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

Before he died in 1965, Blackstone apparently gave most of his secrets, and much of his orotund manner, to Harry Jr., who brings all of the old tricks, and a few new ones, to Broadway. The new, modernized Blackstone slices a woman in half with a 36-inch rotary saw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pure Magic | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

Actually, two aircraft were ablaze. One of the helicopters had refueled on the ground from a C130. When the large plane's tank ran dry, the chopper lifted slightly to move toward another C-130 to pick up more fuel. But in doing so, the pilot turned his RH-53...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Debacle in The Desert | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

They helped mine Haiphong Harbor, retrieved airmen downed in hostile territory during the Viet Nam War, rescued crew members of the Mayaguez, who had been seized by Cambodian Communists, and flew in the commandos who raided the San Tay P.O.W. camp in North Viet Nam. The honor roll is long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Chopper That Couldn't | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

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