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...console, which would flash the lexigram for the food on the screen. If the other chimp understood and identified what he saw by also pressing the correct button, both chimps would be rewarded with the food. In one series of trials, Sherman and Austin got the message (and the snack) across to each other 60 out of 62 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chimp to Chimp | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...settled down for a snack of ham sandwiches. Suddenly the No. 2 starboard rod bent crazily in its stanchion, and the whine of racing line pierced the stillness. Strike! "He's here! He's with us!" Peacock screamed. Donn Mann, 48, an experienced sport fisherman, ran to the fighting chair, strapping his canvas harness to the fiber-glass rod. Some swordfish like to tease the bait. Not this one. He had hit with the wallop of a freight train. Mann released the ratchet on the reel to let the fish run. Then, without warning, the line slackened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stalking the Broadbill | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...most Americans, Indian music is one of those fads that went out with the '60s. It conjures up images of burning incense, Sri Chinmoy and vegetarian snack bars. Most Americans' exposure to it is through Western popular musicians...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: The Sound is God | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...closer look at Fever will reveal both an actor who works his tail off and a man with a sharp eye for stage business. As Tony Manero, he strides down that block of Bay Ridge swinging a can of paint like a talisman, and when he stops for a snack at the corner pizza stand he orders two slices, then eats them one piled right on top of the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Steppin' to stardom | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...beginning, there was the Block. Between Lexington and Third Avenues, 54th and 53rd Streets, it housed such familiar neighborhood establishments as Carroll's Pub, Lexington Sandwich Shoppe, a Pizza Plaza, a Howard Johnson's snack counter. Also, there was a haute cuisine restaurant, Café Chauveron, the Medical Chambers Building, owned cooperatively by 40 doctors, and Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, a handsome two-spired Gothic structure erected in 1905 and all but deserted by a suburban-bound congregation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Classy Newcomer on the Skyline | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

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