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...heavy influence on advertising in cycling stems from the fact that in France, cycling coverage is continuous, with no commercial breaks. A continuous six-hour broadcast every day for a month without commercials would be suicide for an American network, but the advertising keeps French TV going...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Advertisers' Big Bucks Changing the Face of Most Sports | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...caught stealing $69 from flight cocktail receipts by a hidden camera. Born in Britain of Jamaican parents, Burke had never married but had fathered seven children by four women. After his dismissal, he turned moody and violent. He had held Camacho and her six-year-old daughter at gunpoint on a forced six-hour auto drive the previous Friday, and he seemed particularly bitter toward the boss who fired him: Raymond Thomson, 48, the USAir customer-service manager in Los Angeles. Thomson commuted regularly by air from his Tiburon home in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Burke's Deadly Revenge | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

From afar, the blue- and red-striped tents seemed to produce an anachronism, a medieval fair nestled in a New England setting. Under the tents, throngs of eager shoppers flocked to the 55 booths set up for the association's six-hour spring counterpart to Oktoberfest...

Author: By Anil Shrivastava, | Title: Fourth May Fair Draws 5000 To Music, International Bazaar | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...Watt opened Massage Works just six months ago in a plaza in Plantation, Fla., near Fort Lauderdale. Nestled between a VCR repair store and a restaurant, the shop is so busy Watt has had to hire three more therapists. Airports are another new arena. At the Phoenix and Dallas-Fort Worth terminals, tense travelers can drop into the Air Vita health club and get a relaxing massage. One satisfied customer, Dr. Steven Jacobson of Madison, Wis., says massage could figure in his future flight plans: "It might be a reason to have a six-hour layover instead of an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Massage Comes Out of the Parlor | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...time to begin the six-hour drive from Nairobi to Moses' enk'ang (small village) in the Loita Hills. The Land Cruiser travels for three hours over paved road to the dusty frontier town of Narok, then follows a rutted washboard road across an empty and chokingly dusty plain until it shifts into four-wheel drive and begins the slow climb up into the hills. It is lovely in the hills. They look somewhat like the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. Part of their beauty is their pristine remoteness. One rarely encounters a white man there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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