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By midweek the presence of troops in the capital had increased appreciably. There was more of everything: patrols, soldiers with fixed bayonets, armored cars and a few tanks. I spotted a Soviet patrol car and several uniformed Soviet soldiers casually strolling in the center of the city. One man told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Tanks Amid the Eerie Calm | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

With the slightest prodding, photographers will brag about their exploits and their cunning in lengthy and often colorful detail. But some famous pictures, like Adams' shot of the Saigon execution are totally unplanned. Then working for the Associated Press, he went with an NBC crew to a pagoda where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Images: Freezing Moments in History | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

It is hardly surprising that some animals wander into Churchill. Like their ursine cousins in the U.S. national parks, the bears eat almost anything and have learned that where man is, there shall garbage be also. On almost any mid-autumn day, bears can be spotted foraging in Churchill'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Plethora of Polar Bears | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

By 1:30 a.m., Wagner had become worried about his wife and radioed the harbor master. The call was answered instead by Don Whiting, night manager of the restaurant they had left three hours earlier. Whiting launched a search, and at 3:26, the Coast Guard was called in. Soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The last hours of Natalie Wood | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

American toysellers spent most of the Christmas season last year in the doldrums. Profits plunged when sales of highly touted hand-held electronic games, which had been a smash success the year before, fizzled. But Toys R Us, the largest retailer of playthings in the nation, which monitors its check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys for Tots | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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